Biden appointee Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Rochelle Walensky, the Biden-appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Sunday (Jan. 17) that more than 100,000 people could die from the epidemic in the United States in about a month from now until mid-February, bringing the cumulative death toll from the Communist virus to 500,000 nationwide.
In an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Varensky spoke about the Communist virus epidemic in the United States. She said, “By mid-February, we expect 500,000 people to die in this country.”
As of Monday, Jan. 18, CDC statistics put the number of deaths in the U.S. from the infection at 394,000. But according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. has seen more than 4,000 deaths per day from the epidemic in recent times, bringing the nationwide death toll to 398,000.
Wallensky said, “That (500,000 projected deaths) doesn’t include the tens of thousands of people who have recovered and are still carrying the indeterminate syndrome.”
Ron Klain, the new White House chief of staff, also said Sunday that he expects the U.S. death toll to reach 500,000 by February. He said, “People who are infected with the virus today will start getting sick next month, and the death toll will increase at the end of February, even in March. So it’s going to take a while to turn this around.”
Klein said the Biden administration’s next focus is: “Take action to contain it [the virus]. That means getting vaccinations moving, it means helping state and local governments safely reopen school doors, and it means giving people the protective gear they need and really ramping up testing.”
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