Dr. Fauci it is a mixed bag. You can look at the numbers and they are very serious and concerning. Weve had over 185,000 deaths, six plus million infections. If you look at the country, a large heterogeneous country, some areas are doing really very well right now. Particularly those hit badly early on. The new york city metropolitan area has at least for a month now have less than 1 test positivity. In contrast, in other parts of the country, but we saw and some of the Southern States that had big surges where they tried to open up the economy, that brought the baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 to as high as 70,000. We are back down now to between 30,000 and 40,000. And just as those states are starting to level off and come down which is a good sign, we , are starting to see the beginning of surges in places like montana, the dakotas, michigan, minnesota, iowa. So it is really a mixed bag. Some areas are doing really well. Some are still threatening to have surges. I
Live coverage here on cspan. Let me first off start by saying thank you for your time. How are you doing . This is insanity . This is insanity. You are right. It is surreal. It is very intense. 15 tosly, we are working 17 hours a day on this seven days a week, but it is something we have to do. Is historic in its proportions. We have not seen anything like this since the 1918 pandemic. It is challenging for the entire world, and we, the United States, have gotten hit worse than virtually any other country when you talk about cases and deaths. This is an important challenge for us. There is a lot we have to discuss here and not a lot of time. When we are done, we will be joined by the school of Public Health and the director of the school of Public Affairs to build on your comments, but i want to die right in. We got 100 questions from faculty and students. Im going to do my best to weave those in. I saw a story the other day about boston. The pandemic you just referenced. The headline
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This in 102 years, since the 1918 pandemic. It is challenging for the entire world, and we, the United States, have gotten hit worse than virtually any other country when you talk about cases and deaths. This is a real important challenge for us. There is a lot we have to discuss here and not a lot of time. I should say, when we are done, we will be joined by the school of Public Health and the director of the school of Public Affairs to build on your comments, but i want to dive right in. We got 100 questions from faculty and students. Im going to do my best to weave those in. I saw a story the other day about boston. The pandemic you just referenced. The headline haunted me. The headline said, boston refused to close schools during the 1918 flu. Then children began to die. Is history about to repeat itself as we head to the School Season . If you look at the situation with regards to the current pandemic, children clearly have much less of a chance of having a serious outcome when yo