Washington: White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday described the COVID-19 pandemic as his “worst nightmare,” adding that the threat of the virus is not yet over.
During an interview with the BIO Digital virtual health care conference, Fauci said he was stunned by the speed at which the coronavirus spread and “how rapidly it just took over the planet.”
“That’s millions and millions of infections worldwide and it isn’t over yet. And it’s very condensed in a very, very small time frame,” Fauci said. “You know, first notice at the end of December, hit China in January, hit the rest of the world in February, March, April, May, early June.”
Fauci noted an efficiently transmitted disease can spread throughout the world in six months or a year but “this took about a month.”
Fauci said the state of modern travel was part of what allowed the virus to spread so quickly.
“It’s a testimony to not only the extraordinary capability of transmission but of the extraordinary travel capability we have,” he said. “I mean, it stared in a very well-defined place in a city in China called Wuhan.
