The Biden administration's stark warning last week that as many as 100 million Americans could be infected during a COVID-19 wave in the fall and winter came as a shock to many in the country. "Certainly we're capable of sustaining 100 million infections this winter," Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, told ABC News. "The model doesn't mean that there will be 100 million cases, but there is the potential for a lot of infections. If Congress rejects the funding, "the consequences of those 100 million being infected will be higher," Doron said. Why 100 million Americans could be infected during COVID surge this fall originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Source: ABC News May 09, 2022 19:51 UTC