Top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci admits that earlier coronavirus mitigation efforts would have saved more American lives
Washington Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that calls to implement life-saving social distancing measures faced"a lot of pushback" early in the US coronavirus outbreak and that the country is now looking for ways to more effectively respond to the virus should it rebound in the fall.
"I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives," Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, told CNN's Jake Tapper on"State of the Union" when asked if social distancing and stay-at-home measures could have prevented deaths had they been put in place in February, instead of mid-March. "Obviously, no one is going to deny that.
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