{"id":22290,"date":"2020-03-29T22:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T17:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/dr-fauci-says-coronavirus-deaths-in-u-s-could-top-100000\/"},"modified":"2020-03-29T22:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T17:09:50","slug":"dr-fauci-says-coronavirus-deaths-in-u-s-could-top-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=22290","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Fauci Says Coronavirus Deaths in U.S. Could Top 100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5812149\/fauci-coronavirus-deaths-100000\/\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON \u2014<\/strong> The U.S. government\u2019s foremost infection disease expert says the United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d on Sunday, offered his prognosis as the federal government weighs rolling back guidelines on social distancing in areas that have not been as hard-hit by the outbreak at the conclusion of the nationwide 15-day effort to slow the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases,\u201d he said, correcting himself to say he meant deaths. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have millions of cases.\u201d But he added \u201cI don\u2019t want to be held to that\u201d because the pandemic is \u201csuch a moving target.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 125,000 cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. had been recorded as of Sunday morning, with over 2,100 dead. It is certain that many more have the disease but their cases have not been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Deborah Birx, head of the White House coronavirus task force, said parts of the country with few cases so far must prepare for what\u2019s to come. \u201cNo state, no metro area, will be spared,\u201d she said on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people who contract COVID-19 have mild or moderate symptoms, which can include fever and cough but also milder cases of pneumonia, sometimes requiring hospitalization. The risk of death is greater for older adults and people with other health problems. Hospitals in the most afflicted areas are straining to handle patients and some are short of critical supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. government\u2019s foremost infection disease expert says the United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci, speaking on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d on Sunday, offered his prognosis as the federal government weighs rolling back guidelines on social distancing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}