包括俄亥俄州、田纳西州、肯塔基州和印第安纳州在内的几个州需要获得病毒得到控制或者冒险看他们的传输速率得到失去控制美国最高传染病专家安东尼·福奇博士警告说。
在周三美国广播公司新闻网的现场直播采访中，福奇说他和黛博拉·比克斯博士——白宫在这个问题上的协调人冠状病毒特别工作组在周二的一次私人电话中向各州州长传达了这一警告。
他说，俄亥俄州、田纳西州、肯塔基州和印第安纳州开始显示出“阳性百分比”的细微增加，即总检测结果呈阳性的百分比。
他对美国广播公司(ABC)首席医学记者珍妮弗阿什顿(Jennifer Ashton)说，“这无疑暗示，你可能会陷入与南部各州同样的困境。”
福西说，他和Birx在给州长的电话中“强调了这一点”，即这些州需要督促居民戴口罩、避开人群、避开酒吧和洗手。
他说:“如果我们这样做，希望我们将防止多个其他州成为像南方各州一样。”
福西的警告是在今年夏天病例数上升后发出的，特别是在德克萨斯州、佛罗里达州和亚利桑那州。根据约翰·霍普金斯大学的统计，美国周三的死亡人数达到15万。
福奇在接受采访时说，亚洲和欧洲国家在控制传染率方面做得更好，部分原因是它们在今年春天坚决关闭。福奇估计，只有大约一半的美国人留在家里，这使得病毒继续以指数级的速度感染人们，并压倒了许多医院，尤其是在整个南方。
他说，美国目前每天5万至6万人的失业率“仍然不是最佳水平。”
2020年6月30日，美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福奇博士在华盛顿国会参议院健康、教育、劳工和养老金委员会听证会上作证。
在学校方面，福西(他的女儿是一名教师)重申了他的立场，即应该尽一切可能重开学校，但在病毒肆虐的地区这样做可能不现实。
他说:“我不认为会有一个一刀切在这里。”“我认为我们必须小心，主要的想法是，我们想尽可能地让孩子们回到学校。”
当被问及自己的健身计划时，今年12月就满80岁的福西说，尽管工作日程安排得很满，他还是喜欢跑步。他说，他通常每天早上5点起床，抓起果汁或鸡蛋，在处理邮件时会喝两杯“非常浓”的双份浓缩咖啡。
他说他经常工作到深夜。
他说:“在这一切中，睡眠是唯一真正受到影响的东西。”
Fauci warns 4 states whose coronavirus numbers he says don't look good
Several states including Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana need to get thevirus under controlor risk watching theirtransmission ratesgetout of control, warned Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert.
In an interview livestreamed on ABC News' Instagram on Wednesday, Fauci said he and Dr. Deborah Birx -- the White House coordinator on thecoronavirustask force -- delivered the warning to the states' governors in a private phone call on Tuesday.
He said Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana are among those states starting to show a subtle increase in "percent positives" -- the percentage of total tests with positive results.
That's "a surefire hint that you may be getting into the same sort of trouble with those states that the southern states got into trouble with," he told Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News' chief medical correspondent.
Fauci said he and Birx "made the point" in the call with governors that these states need to take push residents to wear masks, avoid crowds, avoid the bars and wash hands.
"If we do that, hopefully we'll prevent multiple other states from becoming just like the southern states," he said.
Fauci's warning comes after case counts were on the rise this summer, particularly in places like Texas, Florida and Arizona. The U.S. death count on Wednesday hit 150,000, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University.
In his interview, Fauci said Asian and European countries have done better to get transmission rates under control in part because they were so firm in shutting down this spring. Fauci has estimated that only about half of the U.S. stayed home, allowing the virus to continue infecting people at exponential rates and overwhelming many hospitals, particularly across the South.
The current U.S. rate of 50,000 to 60,000 a day is "still not optimal," he said.
On schools, Fauci -- whose daughter is a teacher -- reiterated his position that everything possible should be done to reopen schools but that doing so might not be realistic in areas where the virus is raging.
"I don't think there's gonna be a one-size-fits-all here," he said. "I think we got to be careful with the main thought being, we want to try as best as possible to get the children back to school."
When asked about his own fitness regimen, Fauci, who turns 80 this December, said he still likes to run despite a work schedule that goes well into the night. He said he typically gets up at 5 a.m. every morning, grabs juice or eggs and will drink two "very strong" double espressos as he tackles his email.
He says he often works well into the night.
"Sleep is the one thing that's really suffered in all this," he said.
