The virus is “something that’s highly transmissible. ... In a period — if you just think about it — in a period of four months, it has devastated the world,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview with the BIO Digital virtual health-care conference that aired Tuesda
“That’s millions and millions of infections worldwide. And it isn’t over yet. And it’s condensed in a very, very small time frame,” he said. “You know, first notice at the end of December, hit China in January, hit the rest of the world in February, March, April, May, early June.”
The coronavirus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, in late December, has infected more than 7 million people worldwide and killed at least 408,244, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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