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Fauci 'Not Pleased' with US Handling of COVID-19 Outbreak

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   After the country reported its deadliest day of the coronavirus
   outbreak since May, the nation's top infectious disease expert says he
   is not pleased with the way things are going in the United States.

   "We certainly are not where I hope we would be, we are in the middle of
   very serious historic pandemic," Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a National
   Geographic panel discussion Thursday.

   Even though President Donald Trump said this week he expects the
   outbreak to be in "good shape ... in a very short period of time,"
   Fauci said the number of cases will continue to rise unless federal and
   state governments can work together.

   That's the thing that I'm concerned about because I believe we can, we
   have within our power to be able to get that down," he said.

   There has been no single coordinated strategy from Washington and
   states on how to fight the outbreak. Some states have mask mandates and
   are continuing restrictions, while others do not require masks in
   public places and have eased the rules on social gatherings.

   Some states are seeing the number of cases rise while such hot spots as
   Arizona, California and Florida are improving and are "having now, less
   deaths, less hospitalizations, less cases," Fauci said.

   Fauci has said that the coronavirus will likely never go away but that
   health officials can work to bring it down to "low levels."

   World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
   says governments must "do it all" -- test, isolate and treat patients,
   and trace and quarantine all the people with whom they had contact.

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