Donald Trump Says He’s Not in Support of Future Shutdowns If There’s a Second Wave of Coronavirus

Medical officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, have said that more waves are likely.

Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, told The Washington Post he has “no doubt” that the U.S. will see outbreaks in the future.

“The virus is not going to disappear,” he said Wednesday. “It’s a highly transmissible virus. At any given time, it’s some place or another. As long as that’s the case, there’s a risk of resurgence.”

“There’s no doubt in my mind that when you pull back mitigation, you’re going to start seeing cases crop up here and there,” Fauci said in April. “If you’re not able to handle them, you’re going to see another peak, a spike, and then you almost have to turn the clock back to go back to mitigation.”

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