Over the weekend, 11 states saw COVID-19 cases rise by 5% or more — a dangerous trend as the United States heads into the fall, CNBC reports.
The states that saw the increase are:
- Alaska.
- Arkansas.
- Connecticut.
- Delaware.
- Maine.
- Nebraska.
- New Hampshire.
- New Jersey.
- Rhode Island.
- Wisconsin.
- Wyoming.
The level of new infections didn’t sit well with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fauci told MSNBC the current data is “disturbing” as the United States heads into the fall. Specifically, Fauci was responding to the high amount of daily COVID-19 cases across the country.
- “I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with that because if you look at the thing that you just mentioned, the statistics, Andrea, they’re disturbing. We’re plateauing at around 40,000 cases a day and the deaths are around 1,000.”
- “When you have a baseline of infections that are 40,000 per day and you have threats of increased test positivity in certain regions of the country, such as the Dakotas and Montana and places like that. ... You don’t want to start off already with a baseline that’s so high.”
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Last week, Fauci made headlines when he spoke at a panel discussion of doctors from Harvard Medical School. He told the panel that a flu season could create a difficult fall with the coronavirus still around, as I wrote for the Deseret News.
- “We need to hunker down and get through this fall and winter because it’s not going to be easy.”