Dr. Fauci: Coronavirus Is ‘Certainly Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better’

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FAUCI: "Well, it’s certainly going to get worse before it gets better. And the kinds of mitigation strategies, containment and mitigations that you are talking about, is to do that kind of physical separation of people, which is one of the very effective ways that you can really mitigate the spread of the virus. If you look at the pattern of viruses, particularly these types of viruses, and even look at what’s gone on in China and in Italy and in South Korea, you go along like this, the way we were, and then you have a big spike that goes way up, and then after a while, after much disease and suffering and death, it comes back down again. The purpose of the mitigation is to get that peak and to blunt it so it’s a bit of a hill as opposed to a mountain. We’re at a critical point now, more in some regions of the country than in others, but in general, the kinds of things that are going on will hopefully make that blunting of that peak so that we can save a lot of lives and illness."