Lockdown Suspension: US top official warns against acute suffering, deaths

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has warned against easing the lockdown order in the United States.

The warning was issued on Tuesday May 12, 2020, following the fears that such a decision will plunge the country into acute suffering and deaths.

“If the US reopens too fast, Americans will experience ‘needless’ suffering and death,” Fauci said.

In an email sent late Monday night, Fauci wrote that the major message he hoped to convey to the committee was that “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to open America again, then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country.”

“This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal,” he added.