Fauci has contradicted Trump's false claims that the United States is leading the world in the coronavirus fight. Last week, Fauci said that some states had opened too early -- a position supported by the evidence of fast-rising Covid-19 infections. The White House apparently sees no irony in attacking his track record when the President spent weeks denying the virus would be a problem, praising China for its handling of it and predicting a "miracle" that would cause it to disappear. DeVos played on those concerns in demanding a full opening of schools on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. Brian Kemp even angered Trump with the speed of his state openings.

(CNN) States with spiking coronavirus cases still can contain them by pausing their reopening processes, rather than shutting down a second time, one of the nation's top infectious disease experts said Thursday. On Wednesday, Fauci told the Wall Street Journal that a second shutdown might be the best move for states struggling with burgeoning coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. "I think any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down," Fauci told the newspaper in a podcast. The US reached more than 3 million coronavirus cases this week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The University of Mississippi Medical Center has more patients than rooms, the center's vice chancellor said Thursday in a briefing with state health officials.

(CNN) In the span of a week and a half, the number of coronavirus cases in the United States has doubled, yet officials are saying this is still the first wave of the pandemic. "We are still knee-deep in the first wave of this," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a Facebook and Twitter livestream Monday. On the same livestream with Fauci on Monday, Dr. Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, tried to reassure Americans the country would get through the pandemic. The state reported 9,999 new coronavirus cases Sunday, bringing Florida's total to more than 200,000 infections. Florida authorities failed to contact traceA CNN investigation found Florida health authorities often failed to perform contact tracing, which has long been considered a key tool in containing coronavirus outbreaks.

KATY The majority of people now being infected with COVID-19 are young people, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. She is a breast cancer survivor, and her chemotherapy and prolonged medications left her immunocompromised. I got to stay home because my mom had an old oxygen machine that I was able to use. If I didnt have that, I would have definitely been in the hospital.The 31-year-old said if you personally still dont know anyone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19, now you know her. Its safer than sorry and its a humanity issue, not a political issue, Lipscomb said.