The U.S. recorded 115,000 COVID-19 cases Thursday afternoon and remains the country with the most confirmed cases than any other country in the world, according to data from the Center of System Science and Engineering from John Hopkins University and Worldometers.
Worldometers reports that there has been over 115,786 deaths from the novel coronavirus recorded as the number of confirmed cases reaches over 2 million.
Dr. Anthony Fauci told Today Tuesday the coronavirus pandemic has turned out to be his “worst nightmare” and warned that it’s not over yet as 21 states across the country have seen an increase in cases.
Fauic, who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the nation’s top infectious disease expert spoke at a BIO Digital virtual health-care conference about the continued spread of the coronavirus across the world four months into the pandemic.
“Like oh, my goodness, when is it going to end?” Fauci said Tuesday. “It really is very complicated. So we’re just at almost the beginning of really understanding.”
Fauci called the virus “highly transmissible” and said that “in a period of four months, it has devastated the world.”
“That’s millions and millions of infections worldwide,” he continued. “And it isn’t over yet. And it’s condensed in a very, very small time frame.”