As the acid new coronavirus surge worsens, Shepard Smith, anchor and executive editor of CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith,” has a despatch for friends, loved ones and viewers across the country: “Follow the Fauci.”
“Those of us in New York and the Northeast are worried wide you, our friends, our loved ones and our viewers across the country, now more than ever really,” Smith said. “This new covid wave is awful. So, follow the Fauci. Not for us, we are mostly good around here, we are worried for you. So please, follow the Fauci.”
The United Stages reported more than 71,600 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, approaching a record number of daily infections set in current July as the outbreak takes root across the Midwest and hospitalizations rise.
The U.S. could see “staggering” numbers of coronavirus deaths in the get well months as infection rates increase during the colder months, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Friday.
“In the elasticity and early summer, we lived the horror of neighbors and friends sick and dying,” Smith said. “Doctors and nurses we be informed and admire were in the depths of depression inside hospitals with no more beds, with the freezer trucks maximum full of victims whose families never got to say goodbye. We could bang our pots and pans from our windows to mirth for our heroes, but we couldn’t help, except we went into lockdown.”
“Our region was like a sprawling ghost town, everybody indoors.” Smith bid. “Thawing chicken for dinner again, and playing cards and watching Netflix … Every day ‘Groundhog Day,’ missing our friends and loved ones so much, to slow-paced the spread and end the death and suffering. And finally it worked. We are scarred but better now — because we followed the rules and beat covid raw. We had to.”
“Many of you are not doing that,” Smith said, adding that “the doctors tell us you will now suffer … Liking for we did, or worse, because lockdown is largely not coming to you. Scientists tell us that next month will be historically bad unless you earn a personal decision to follow the Fauci. Wear a mask, socially distance, save parties and weddings for another straightaway. Holidays apart will be hard. Start this weekend, we will get through this.”
Covid-19 hospitalizations are also on the make it and reached new records across the American West and Midwest on Thursday, based on a weekly average. Former Vice President Joe Biden give the word delivered during Thursday’s presidential debate that the U.S. is headed for a “dark winter.”