Public health officials are bracing for a new round of COVID-19 case spikes as many Americans traveled and held large family gatherings over the Thanksgiving holiday in defiance of mitigation guidance from the government, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.
Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned that as the nation heads into December, officials expect “we might see a surge superimposed on the surge we are already in.”
“I don’t want to frighten people except to say it’s not too late at all for us to do something about this,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Fauci urged Americans to take precautions, including social distancing and wearing masks during and after travel back home.
Even with vaccinations likely to begin within weeks, Fauci said the nation is entering “really a precarious situation.” He noted that infected people may not develop symptoms for two weeks, and asymptomatic people can still spread the virus.
“We are going to have to make decisions as a nation, state, city and family that we are in a very difficult time, and we’re going to have to do the kinds of restrictions of things we would have liked to have done, particularly in this holiday season,” he said.
Fauci’s warning comes as more than 91,000 people are in treatment in hospitals for the virus, the most since the pandemic began. Twenty-six states have set records for COVID-19-linked hospitalizations this past week, CNN reported.
More than 13.2 million Americans have been infected and nearly 267,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. CNN reported that the month of November alone saw more than 4 million new cases, with the fall surge producing more than 100,000 new cases nationwide for the last 26 consecutive days.
In Massachusetts, where newly reported case counts were down in the low hundreds two months ago, more than 2,900 new cases were confirmed on Saturday. More than 10,400 in Massachusetts have died; at least 214,000 have contracted the virus.
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I’ve often wondered, HOW THESE GOVT hacks, get paid MORE THAN THE PRESIDENT gets…
Piss off Fauci your an idiot and a traitor to the United States of America .
According to that traitor Fauci we all should be dead by xmas.
I 100 percent agree with you on that, I just wish somebody would do something to these traitors.
It won’t be the inept dept of injustice, or the DO NOTHING rino ridden GOP…
I do wish that Fauci would cover his head with dirt and not come up for air. This virus is all his fault. He got the grant oked for china to work on this thing and could not wait for it’s development. Now he is telling everyone to stay at home and wear a mask. We know that the masks don’t work and I’m sure that more fresh air and sun would help us more that setting at home in front of a TV watching CNN. I’m almost certain that the virus was let lose in the USA to win an election. When we start to get some freedom another batch is let lose. It’s hard to think about it, but I could not believe that Joe got that many votes, more than Obama? Come on get real I though that it took 15 days for the virus to show up, Thanksgiving was only 4 days. Also they are claiming that certain companies had the virus from Thanksgiving. Most employees stayed at home and did not go to work. What we are being told don’t mix with the facts. It’s the old saying, divide and win.
The release of The Wuhan Flu was Round 3 of the OWG plan to reduce the population of the planet to levels they think will be controllable. Round 1 was AIDS, still running wild in African countries and killing off both the adults and a couple more generations; Round 2 was Ebola which continued the decimation of African nations [the sub-3rd world nations in Africa are a drain on the OWG’s resources, even as their populations try to kill off each other]; and now Round 3 is The Wuhan “enhanced” coronavirus, which as a virus will never have a true “vaccine” since viruses always mutate to enhance their ability to “survive” in the wild.
It’s been months since I could find more than 1 or 2 articles which laid out the very credible evidence that the RNA chains of the virus have mutations which could only occur over centuries, if at all, in normal viral mutation scenarios. Where have the articles and those credible research scientists gone????
Silenced by the libtard ran ANTI-social media hacks, most likely.
I say start with all the demoncrats across the country, along with all their staffs. Then go to all the federal and state government “employees” [I didn’t say nor meant “workers”] except military and 1st responders. Wait 12 months to see how many actual bad “side effects” they have, then offer it to the general population.
Also, if any business, especially travel related, requires some “proof of vaccination”, boycott the business to deplete their few remaining resources. If enough airlines, cruise lines, and hotel chains go bankrupt [and many aren’t far from it now] then they made their decision to kill their own companies.
My family has been frequent customers of cruise lines, and hoped to be in the future, but if our preferred cruise line requires a vaccine to board, they’ll not get an additional $ of my hard earned money.
Ive been already boycotting ALL air travel. Never yet even thought to take a cruise. BUT IF ANY mandate folks get vaccinated to use their services, then i guess they never wanted my dollars anyway.
i TRULY BELIEVE THAT FAUCI IS A CHINA OPERATIVE. HAS ANYONE CHECK TO SEE OR LISTEN TO WHO HE CONTACTS. THESE OUTBREAKS SOUND SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE PEOPLE GOING OUT AND SPRAYING AN AREA THAT FAUCI HAS DECLARED NEXT FOR BIG ONSALT OF COVID. ANOTHER TRAITOR IN OUR MIST????