Dr. Fauci Predicts Up to 200,000 New COVID Cases Per Day By Fall

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci is predicting that by the fall, there will be up to 200,000 new daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. driven by the Delta variant.

“Remember, just a couple of months ago, we were having about 10,000 cases a day,” Fauci told McClatchy’s DC Bureau on Wednesday. “I think you’re likely going to wind up somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 cases.”

“What we’re seeing, because of this increase in transmissibility, and because we have about 93 million people in this country who are eligible to get vaccinated who don’t get vaccinated that you have a significant pool of vulnerable people,” Fauci said. “And so when you look at the curve of acceleration of 7-day averages of cases per day, it is going up in a very steep fashion.”

Fauci’s estimate would bring figures much closer to January’s numbers. The highest number of cases recorded in a single day was on January 7 when 295,880 new infections were reported.

via www.newsweek.com

Let’s see if he’s right.