Dr. Fauci calls coronavirus his ‘worst nightmare,’ but here’s why he’s hopeful

[Andy Meek]

• Dr. Anthony in a new interview describes the COVID-19 pandemic as his "worst nightmare" come to life, but he adds that there's hope on the horizon thanks to progress on a coronavirus vaccine.
• He also explains why everyone's focus now is necessarily turning to how to open the world back up again safely.
• As of Tuesday evening, a little more than 1.9 million coronavirus infections have been identified to-date in the US, according to Johns Hopkins University.

On a day when the number of coronavirus infections in the US inched closer to 2 million, according to the latest numbers from Johns Hopkins University, everybody's favorite coronavirus soothsayer, Dr. Anthony Fauci, sat for a new interview in which he both kind of terrified me anew -- but also offered a good bit of hope, thanks to sharing some updated information about coronavirus vaccines that are in the works around the world.

In an interview with the BIO Digital virtual health-care conference that aired Tuesday, per CNBC, Fauci -- who's also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -- described the COVID-19 virus and the pandemic that's ensued around it as his "worst nightmare." That's partly because of the fact that "in a period, if you just think about it, in a period of four months, it has devastated the world."

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