As the U.S. sees upwards of 160,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, Dr Anthony Fauci says the country is far from in control of the pandemic 'The endgame is to suppress the virus,' Fauci told Axios, but the country is still in 'pandemic mode' with the current high case level Pandemic hotspots such as South Carolina, West Virginia, and Idaho exemplify the country's lack of control over this Covid surge To reach the end of the pandemic - under 10,000 new cases per day - the US needs to vaccinate more people, Fauci said