Fauci praises Mass.; state reports 290 new coronavirus cases, 17 new deaths [View all]
The nation’s top infectious disease specialist praised Massachusetts’ response to the coronavirus pandemic this week, as key indicators for the state continued to tick downward while dozens of other states see infections climbing.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also pointed to tighter lockdowns in Europe leading infection rates there to drop while US numbers continue to climb, as he appeared Thursday afternoon in a video interview with Harvard Business Review’s Joshua Macht.
Asked about the virus’s slowing spread in Massachusetts and some other states hit hard early in the pandemic, Fauci cautioned that the numbers would inevitably move upward as the state continues to reopen businesses.
“You are going to see infections as we try to open up and go from one phase to another,” Fauci said. “By the way, Massachusetts has done a really, really good job. They have. New York City, even though they got hit really badly, did a really good job of getting it down.”
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