Published 11:20 IST, October 13th 2020

Fauci calls Trump's rallies 'whole lot of trouble', urges people to avoid mass gatherings

Fauci said that people needed to avoid the large assembly, especially now when the baseline of infections varies between 40 and 50,000 per day.

Reported by: Zaini Majeed
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With US President Donald Trump back on his campaign trail, and his down south Sanford, Florida rally largely witnessing unmasked crowd with zero social distancing, US’ top disease expert Dr. Fauci on October 12 warned Americans about “whole lot of trouble” with universal face masks at garings. 

In his televised dress with US’ leing brocaster CNBC, Fauci said that people needed to avoid large assembly, especially w when baseline of infections varies between 40 and 50,000 per day. “That’s a b place to be,” Fauci said in a live-streamed dress, ding, just about when country was entering into b wear of winter. This comes as US recorded nearly 44,600 new cases of vel coronavirus as of October 12, with seven-day aver soaring to 49,200 infections, a 14 percent spike from previously recorded, last week. Dr. Fauci has also put death toll projection in United States at 400,000. 

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, concerned about uncontrolled infections, warned that American people h to “turn this around”, urging safe practices such as wearing masks, socially distancing, avoiding congregate settings, and washing hands.

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Trump's rallies “asking for troubles”

Furr, in his interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Fauci said that Trump’s campaign rallies were “asking for troubles” as crowd didn’t here to health precautionary measures. re are a lot of people without masks, Fauci said in a televised interview, when asked about Trump’s rallies. w was even more so a worse time to do that, he pointed out, citing surge in percent of coronavirus infections in US. Fauci warned that events that conglomerated large crowd were unsafe and that US was going in wrong direction right w, whereas, health safety measures needed to be tightened. 

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Having held a rally in Florida, Trump is expected to rally in Johnstown, Pa., Des Moines, Iowa, and Greenville, N.C., later in week. Trump has held numerous public garing events before contracting coronavirus himself, which, Dr. Fauci h called as ‘Superspreer’ events. However, Trump me clear that he would be holding campaign trails just approximately three weeks ahe of Election Day, as polls showed Biden trailing by a decisive margin in several swing states.

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11:20 IST, October 13th 2020