Giroir, a four-star admiral, serves as director of U.S. coronavirus diagnostic tests. He said that, as has been the case for months, the most important factor in the holiday season is how careful Americans are.
“I really encourage people to follow the CDC guidelines, make your family gatherings small, be safe, protect the elderly and we can get through this,” he says.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who spoke to host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union”, said it was quite possible that there could be a boom after the holidays, even if people were careful.
‘There is no guarantee that this will happen, but there is definitely a danger. When you travel – you see pictures on the TV screens, Dana, of people at airports sitting in rows trying to stay physically separated. But it’s so hard to do, ‘said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
In the United States, nearly 19 million cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed. The current death toll is 331,930, by far the highest in the world.