White House advisers warn of 'unrelenting' COVID-19 spread

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The White House coronavirus task force is warning of a persistent and broad spread of COVID-19 in the western half of the United States and its ...

Anthony Fauci, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, testifies during a US Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing to examine COVID-19, focusing on an update on the federal response at the US Capitol Washington, DC, on Sep 23, 2020.

"If things do not change, if they continue on the course we're on, there's gonna be a whole lot of pain in this country with regard to additional cases and hospitalisations, and deaths," Fauci said in an interview with CNBC Wednesday night. Trump pushed to reopen the US economy, sometimes against the advice of his own government health experts, while many of his supporters in Michigan and elsewhere protested lockdown and mitigation efforts.White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows defended the administration's response on Thursday and stressed that therapeutics and vaccines were on the way.

Trump has repeatedly downplayed the virus, claiming for weeks that the country is"rounding the turn" as cases climb. Thirteen states, mainly in the Midwest and West, reported a record number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients on Wednesday, according to a Reuters analysis.

 

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