Dr. Fauci’s worst coronavirus prediction has come true

[Andy Meek]

• The latest coronavirus update showing where the US stands at this point in the pandemic is perhaps the most ominous one yet.
• The US has now set a truly frightening coronavirus record, having passed 120,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single day on Thursday.
• For this and other reasons, it seems that White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci was right that winter would be a tough time for the US.

The coronavirus updates have been coming fast and furious as the week draws to a close, and while everyone's attention is still focused on the outcome of Election Day 2020, the latest updates are equally deserving of attention -- for all the wrong reasons.

For starters, remember all those dire predictions from White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, about how this winter was going to be truly terrible and that COVID-19 would be spreading like wildfire more than ever? The US notched a stunningly bad coronavirus record on Thursday, when we passed the 120,000 mark in terms of the number of new cases that day. That's up from 107,872 new infections on Wednesday, according to a New York Times tracker, and at least 1,616 Americans also died from the deadly pathogen.

Moreover, in the past week, the US has averaged 91,878 cases a day -- up 51% from two weeks ago. That brings our cumulative totals to-date to more than 9.6 million coronavirus cases in the US since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University, as well as more than 235,000 deaths.

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