Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)Fauci sat down virtually with Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg for an in-depth question-and-answer session to talk about the current state of the pandemic.
The conversation was livestreamed on Facebook.“We’re in a very precarious situation,” Fauci told Zuckerberg. “When you look at the numbers, almost every day either breaks a record or ties a record of cases.”The interview came on the same day that the U.S.
surpassed 267,000 deaths since the pandemic started. The country had reported more than 13.5 million positive cases as of Nov.