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It’s impossible to pinpoint exactly what caused the fresh coronavirus case spike in the US, the country’s top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
But a range of simultaneous factors — like protests, political rallies, Memorial Day celebrations and state reopenings — probably contributed, Fauci said in an interview with Harvard Business Review on Thursday.
“It’s very difficult to say that this particular demonstration, or that particular rally, or that particular holiday at a beach did it,” Fauci said. “But something happened to make the spike go way up like that.”
The rise in cases comes amid reopening efforts in the US, which Fauci said never completely closed in many respects.
“When the European Union shut down… about 95 or more percent of the country truly locked down,” he said. “When we were in our lockdown, about 50% of the country was in lockdown.”
Fauci said the disparate response to the pandemic among different states, regions and cities made a unified approach difficult, “probably to our detriment.”
