Dr. Fauci to warn of 'needless suffering and death' during congressional testimony on 'the danger of trying to open the country prematurely'

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• Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said he plans to warn the Senate about the "danger of trying to reopen the country prematurely," he told The New York Times in an email.
• Fauci is set to testify before the Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Tuesday in his first appearance before Congress since Trump declared a national emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic.
• "If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: 'Open America Again,' then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country," Fauci wrote in the email. "This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal."
• In mid-April, the White House revealed its "Opening Up America Again" plan, a three-phase roadmap for states to relax their stay-at-home orders.
• Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security also released four criteria to guide governors in deciding when to reopen their economies.
• However, a JHU researcher asserted before Congress earlier this week that no state that is starting to lift their lockdowns had met the criteria.
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Infectious disease expert and member of the White House coronavirus task force Anthony Fauci said he plans to issue a stark warning before the Senate on the "danger of trying to open up the country prematurely," The New York Times reported.

In his first appearance before Congress since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, Fauci is set to testify before the Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor, and Pensions on Tuesday.

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