NEW YORK: In a frightening warning, the US will see 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, the Trump administration’s topmost infection disease expert forecast on Sunday as the pandemic infected nearly 125,000 people in the country.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said in an interview on CNN that the US will certainly have “millions of cases” of Covid-19 and more than 100,000 deaths.
“Looking at what we are seeing now, I would say between 100,000-200,00” deaths from coronavirus.
“We’re going to have millions