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- As of mid-day Tuesday, the latest coronavirus update for the US shows that more than 27.1 million COVID-19 cases have been identified here since the start of the pandemic.
- Even though the pace of new infections has declined, experts like White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci think that could change soon.
- The reason is the much more transmissible and contagious COVID-19 variant strains from places like South Africa.
The latest coronavirus update from the team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University that's been tracking the pandemic shows that there have been more than 27.1 million coronavirus cases in the US to date, along with more than 465,000 deaths. As we've noted on a number of occasions, part of what's largely driving the numbers now, which have been on a promising decline in recent days, are the more transmissible new COVID-19 variant strains -- which experts like those at the CDC as well as White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci think are well on their way to becoming the dominant strains in the US very soon.
That shift is happening at precisely the worst time, with state and local governments finally starting to loosen restrictions on places like restaurants -- which have tended to be capped at a limited maximum capacity as COVID cases mounted -- right as a much stronger wave of new COVID infections might be about to materialize. This kind of decision can be seen in Iowa, where the state's Republican governor lifted the state’s partial mask mandate at the end of last week. The newspaper editorial board of The Des Moines Register also slammed Gov. Kim Reynolds' companion decision to remove limits on public gatherings, as well as on the number of customers allowed in a business. In an interview with NBC News, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Justin Lessler confessed that "I have some concern it's premature" to start removing these kinds of restrictions, with Dr. Fauci providing some additional context along these lines.
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Here’s why Dr. Fauci thinks all of our COVID progress might evaporate soon originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 16:31:06 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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