Washington ¨C The United States¡¯ top infectious disease official, Anthony Fauci, is expected to issue a stern warning against reopening the economy too soon during a Senate hearing Tuesday, saying it risks multiple new coronavirus outbreaks throughout the country.
The U.S. risks ¡°the danger of trying to open the country prematurely,¡± Fauci said in an email to a New York Times reporter ahead of his testimony. Fauci and other health officials ¡ª and even the committee chairman ¡ª will appear remotely because of potential exposure to the virus.
¡°If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to ¡®Open America Again,¡¯ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country,¡± Fauci wrote. ¡°This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.¡±
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