Dr Fauci on Tuesday predicted that the US coronavirus crisis will worsen significantly next month
He pinned his prediction in part on Americans failure to heed experts advice against travel and gatherings over Christmas
He declined to speculate how high the numbers will get but said: I hope we just don t get to that level of continually seeing over 800,000 [daily cases]
CDC projections suggest that the U.S. COVID-19 death toll will be well over 400,000 by January 20, when Trump will leave office
As of Tuesday afternoon, nearly 337,000 Americans had died of COVID-19 and more than 19.4 million people had been infected