US is still ‘knee-deep` in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Fauci says
(WorldNews Health)

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. “I would say, this would not be considered a wave. It was a surge, or a resurgence of infections superimposed upon a baseline that really never got down to where we wanted to go.” The surge in recent weeks has led to a shortage of hospital beds and threatens to set the economy back even further. This virus is...