America’s Top Infectious Doc Says We Could Face 100,000 Deaths or More and National Lock Down

America’s Top Infectious Doc Says We Could Face 100,000 Deaths or More and National Lock Down

Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious diseases expert is urging Americans to prepare to “hunker down” as the U.S. scrambles to contain and mitigate the spread of a virus that could kill hundreds of thousands of people here.

Asked on by CNN's Brianna Keiler on "State of the Union" if hundreds of thousands could die from coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that "it could happen, and it could be worse."

Both Italy and Spain and their combined 109 million residents are now locked down.

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“I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

The following are key comments from Fauci on Sunday:

DR. ANTHONY FAUCI:

Well, if you have a really massive increase in cases, there's no country or anybody in the world that's going to be perfectly prepared. But we have a stockpile and we will hopefully be able to backfill and refill that stockpile. But I think people should remember, that's the reason why we want to blunt that curve. If you let the curve get up there, then the entire society is going to be hit.

I think Americans should be prepared that they're going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing.