“Bottom line, it’s going to get worse,” Anthony Fauci, the long-standing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified. They suggest that the United States — which has surpassed 1,000 confirmed novel-coronavirus infections and 30 deaths — must prepare for a potentially historic pandemic. ADSome of the projections for covid-19’s spread in the United States have been grave. In his Capitol Hill testimony, Fauci said that a plausible covid-19 fatality rate could be 1 percent. Early estimates of the fatality rate for H1N1 in 2009 were much higher than the roughly 0.01 to 0.03 percent it turned out to be.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2020 20:44 UTC