Anthony Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci delivers a sobering assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic; President Donald Trump pushes to reopen schools.

The coronavirus has mutated in a way that might help the pathogen spread more easily, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted that the U.S. could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day if it stays on its current trajectory. Dr. Jay Wolfson, Senior Associate Dean at the University of South Florida’s College of Medicine, weighs in on that frightening prediction and explains how the U.S. got on this path.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut doubled the number of quarantine-restricted states to 16 Tuesday as the rate of new U.S. COVID infections surged to a level the CDC warned may be beyond the nation’s ability to control. Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, further amplified the alarm Tuesday, telling the Senate he could see new daily...

Dr. Anthony Fauci tells Congress the U.S. could soon see up to 100,000 new coronavirus infections each day if drastic steps aren’t taken.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says the new G4 swine flu out of China is currently not a threat but “something we need to keep our eye on.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci explains factors that local schools should take into consideration as they figure out how to welcome kids back to the classroom.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID and member of the White House coronavirus task force, addressed the growing number of virus cases across the U.S. Fauci urged Americans to do their part in stopping the spread, saying, “A risk for you is not just isolated to you because if you get infected, you are part, innocently or inadvertently, of propagating...

President Donald Trump keeps spinning a tale about COVID-19 that is at odds with his own administration’s disease experts and data compiled by his own coronavirus task force, which was obtained exclusively by NBC News.

The U.S. is seeing a “disturbing surge” of COVID-19 infections, particularly in the Southeast and West, Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday.

President Donald Trump recently declared that the coronavirus is “fading” and that U.S. testing for COVID-19 is the best anywhere.

The government’s top infectious disease expert said Tuesday he is cautiously optimistic that there will be a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year or early 2021, and warned that the next few weeks will be critical to tamping down coronavirus hot spots around the country.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID and member of the White House coronavirus task force, testified to Congress on Tuesday that a coronavirus vaccine could be available as early as the beginning of 2021.

At a congressional hearing on the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that success in fighting the virus has been largely dependent on different regions’ willingness to follow the coronavirus task force guidelines and warned that the coming weeks will be critical in slowing the spread. Fauci also testified that he was never ordered to slow down testing,...

Public health workers fighting the coronavirus are facing growing threats from elected officials and members of the public who are frustrated with the lockdowns

White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Covid-19 turned out to be his “worst nightmare” come to life as the coronavirus continues to rapidly spread across the globe. 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...

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said at a press conference on Monday that he supports the global protests against racism and police brutality. He urged protesters to continue taking safety precautions during the coronavirus pandemic.

White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said he worries about the “durability” of a potential coronavirus vaccine, saying there’s a chance it may not provide long-term immunity. If Covid-19 acts like other coronaviruses, “it likely isn’t going to be a long duration of immunity,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during an interview...

The government’s top infectious disease expert says the U.S. still lacks critical testing and other procedures needed to begin reopening the nation’s economy, adding a dose of caution to increasingly optimistic projections from the White House