A spike in U.S. coronavirus infections is fueled in large
part by people ignoring public health guidelines to keep their distance and
wear masks, the government’s top infectious disease official said.
A daily surge in confirmed cases has been most pronounced in
southern and western states that did not follow health officials’
recommendations to wait for a steady decline in infections for two weeks before
reopening their economies.
“That’s a recipe for disaster,” Anthony Fauci, who directs
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN in an
interview broadcast on Monday.
“Now we’re seeing the consequences of community spread,
which is even more difficult to contain than spread in a well-known physical
location like a prison or nursing home or meatpacking place,” Fauci told the
cable channel in the interview, which was recorded on Friday.
More than 2.5 million people have tested positive for the
coronavirus in the United States and more than 125,000 have died of COVID-19,
the respiratory illness it causes, according to a Reuters tally. The U.S. tally
is the highest in the world while the global death toll here in the pandemic
surpassed half a million people on Sunday.
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