Washington: It’s been over four months since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic and it’s far from over. As cases continue to climb in the U.S, White House advisor Anthony Fauci is urging Americans to hit the “reset button.”
But he’s not suggesting that states go back to lockdown mode.
“We’ve really got to almost regroup, call a time out not necessarily lock down again, but, say, we’ve got to do this in a more measured way,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an interview on Thursday.
Fauci said the U.S. is currently dealing with a “mixed bag” of coronavirus cases. “Some areas [are] doing well, but some really we’ve got to really pay attention to and do something about it,” he said.
On Thursday, the U.S. reported 77,255 new coronavirus cases, shattering its previous single-day record by nearly 10,000, according to data complied by Johns Hopkins University. States like California, Florida and Texas accounted for more than half of all new cases.
Fauci, who has been leading the Covid-19 response in the U.S., told The Atlantic on Wednesday that while he won’t call out any states in particular, “some states did, in fact, prematurely jump over some checkpoints.”
