Dr. Fauci Warns Americans: “We Need To Hunker Down To Get Through This Fall And Winter Because It’s Not Going To Be Easy”

Buckle up, people. We’re in for a bumpy ride. That’s the new warning coming from the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. During a round table discussion at Harvard Medical School on Thursday, Dr. Fauci warns the U.S. needs to ‘hunker down’ for fall, winter.

With the United States approaching 200,000 deaths and 6 million cases, Dr. Fauci warned that the U.S. should prepare for a difficult few months in the fight against COVID-19 as flu season approaches. Fauci said:

“We need to hunker down and get through this fall and winter because it’s not going to be easy.”

Dr. Fauci said Thursday that despite the ongoing decline in daily coronavirus cases, the U.S. should prepare for a difficult few months in the fight against COVID-19 as flu season approaches. He urged Americans to not let up on the battle against the pandemic.

Fauci went on to say:

“We’ve been through this before,” he said. “Don’t ever, ever underestimate the potential of the pandemic. And don’t try and look at the rosy side of things.”

Dr. Fauci also commented on the emerging newest “hot spot” in the Midwest, and the looming threat of a second wave in the US like what’s happening right now in France and Spain. He warned that “it’s really quite frankly depressing to see that because you know what’s ahead.”

Fauci, one of the world’s leading AIDS researchers since the 1980s, warned about the dangers of underestimating the virus. He compared the pandemic to the early days of HIV, in terms of how it escalated, and, in COVID-19’s case, how it might continue to escalate.

“We’ve been through this before,” he said. “Don’t ever, ever underestimate the potential of the pandemic. And don’t try and look at the rosy side of things.”

To date, over 190,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, according to latest data from Johns Hopkins University.