Top US Disease Expert Backs Nationwide Lockdown – By VOA Newsroom (VOA News) / March 15 2020
WASHINGTON – The United States’ top infectious disease expert says he would favor a national lockdown to stop further spread of the coronavirus — the same kind of drastic step some hard-hit countries have taken.
Chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN Sunday he would like to see a “dramatic diminution of the personal interaction that we see” in such places as restaurants and bars, encouraging people to stay home.
“We need to be very serious about this, for a while. Life is not going to be the way it used to be in the United States. We just have to accept that if we want to do what’s best for the American public,” Fauci said.
Fauci later said at the White House that the “worst is ahead” even after U.S. President Donald Trump said moments earlier that his government has “total control” over the virus.
Many U.S. states have shut down schools, banned large gatherings, and closed theaters. College and major league sports have come to a complete halt and theme parks, including Disneyland and Disney World, are turning away visitors.
New York City, the nation’s largest public school system with more than 1 million students, will close Monday — a decision Mayor Bill de Blasio says he took “with no joy and a lot of pain.”
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