Dr Fauci, who is the Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is also the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden
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Anthony Fauci and Anne Schuchat, then principal dy. director of the CDC, at a White House briefing in April 2016. Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
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America s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci on Tuesday said that India is in such dire straits because it made the incorrect assumption that they were finished with the COVID-19 and opened up prematurely. India has been severely affected by the unprecedented second wave of the coronavirus and hospitals in several states are reeling under the shortage of health workers, vaccines, oxygen, drugs and beds. The reason that India is in such dire straits now is that they had an original surge and made the incorrect assumption that they were finished with it, and what happened, they opened up prematurely and wind up having a surge right now that we re all very well aware of is extremely devastating, Dr Fauci told Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee during a hearing on the COVID-19 Response.