Dr. Anthony Fauci told the Today Show that he would have been “shocked” to hear a year ago that the U.S. coronavirus death toll would surpass 500,000.
Said Fauci: “It would have shocked me completely. I mean, I knew we were in for trouble… In fact that day, at a congressional hearing I made the statement, ‘Things are going to get much worse before they get better.’ But I did not in my mind think that ‘much worse’ was going to be 525,000 deaths.”


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