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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 24 June 2020
Fauci: Next few weeks critical to tamping down virus spikes

Continued from Front said. Trump, meanwhile,
doubled down on testing
Fauci told lawmakers he claims that have public
understands the pent- health experts appalled,
up desire to get back to tweeting Tuesday:
normal as the U.S. begins “Cases are going up in
emerging from months of the U.S. because we are
stay-at-home orders and testing far more than any
business shutdowns. But other country, and ever ex-
that has “to be a gradual panding. With smaller tes-
step-by-step process and ting we would show fewer
not throwing caution to cases! “
the wind,” he said. “Plan A, Less testing in fact means
don’t go in a crowd. Plan more infections going un-
B, if you do, make sure you detected. The U.S. was slow
wear a mask,” Fauci said. in ramping up and current-
Troubling surges worsened ly is testing about 500,000
Tuesday in several states, people a day. Many ex-
with Arizona, Texas and Ne- perts say to control the
vada setting single-day re- spread of the virus, it should
cords for new coronavirus be testing 900,000 or more.
cases, and some governors Brett Giroir, a Health and
saying they’ll consider rein- Human Services assistant
stating restrictions or delay- secretary, told lawmakers
ing plans to ease up in or- From left, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Director Tuesday the next step is tes-
of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Adm. Brett Giroir,
der to help slow the spread head of the U.S. Public Health Service, listen as Food and Drug Administration Commissioner ting patient samples in lar-
of the virus. Dr. Stephen Hahn testifies before a House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the Trump ge batches to stretch limi-
Arizona, where Trump was administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, ted supplies, which would
headed for a rally at a June 23, 2020. expand U.S. screening bet-
Phoenix megachurch, re- Associated Press ween fivefold and tenfold.
ported a new daily record tric hospital began taking ger people, some of them Republican Rep. David Instead of testing each per-
of nearly 3,600 additional adult patients to free up do get very sick and even McKinley of West Virginia son individually, health wor-
coronavirus infections Tu- bed space in Houston. The die. And younger people asked if Fauci regretted kers would pool samples
esday. Arizona emerged infection rate in Texas has also may be more likely to that the American public from 50, 100 or more peop-
as a COVID-19 hot spot af- doubled since late May. show no symptoms yet still wasn’t urged sooner to le from the same office or
ter Republican Gov. Doug And Nevada surpassed a spread the virus. wear face masks, and then school, for example. A ne-
Ducey lifted his stay-home record one-day increase If people say, “’I’m young, interrupted before the visi- gative result would clear
orders in mid-May. Last for the fourth time in the I’m healthy, who cares’ — bly annoyed scientist fini- everyone, while a positive
week he allowed cities and past eight days. Other sta- you should care, not only shed answering. would require each person
counties to require masks tes also were experiencing for yourself but for the im- Fauci said he didn’t regret to be individually re-tested.
in public places and many worrisome surges, including pact you might have” on the change in recommen- And Dr. Robert Redfield,
have done so. Louisiana, Utah and South sickening someone more dations. Early in the pande- head of the Centers for
Texas surpassed 5,000 new Carolina. vulnerable, Fauci said. mic there was a “paucity of Disease Control and Pre-
cases for a single day for Another worrisome trend: About 2.3 million Americans equipment” for health wor- vention, added that it’s
the first time — just days an increase in infections have been infected and kers “who put themselves now required for workers in
after it eclipsed 4,000 new among young adults. Fauci some 120,000 have died, daily in harm’s way” and nursing homes — hard-hit
cases for the first time — as said while COVID-19 tends according to data from “we did not want to divert” by the virus — to be tested
America’s largest pedia- to be less severe in youn- Johns Hopkins University. those scarce supplies, he weekly.q

Prosecutor says Roger Stone was given special treatment

By MARY CLARE JALONICK that he was told in no un- ing recommendation just
and ERIC TUCKER certain terms that political hours after Trump tweeted
Associated Press considerations influenced his displeasure at the rec-
WASHINGTON (AP) — A the handling of the case, ommendation of up to nine
federal prosecutor is pre- according to testimony years in prison, saying it had
pared to tell Congress on released by the House Ju- been too harsh. Stone was
Wednesday that Roger diciary Committee. The later sentenced to serve
Stone, a close ally of Presi- panel subpoenaed Zelinksy more than three years in
dent Donald Trump, was and John Elias, a career of- prison plus two years' pro-
given special treatment ficial in the department's bation and a $20,000 fine.
ahead of his sentencing antitrust division, as part of Barr has said the presi-
because of his relationship its probe into the politici- dent's tweet played no
with the president. zation of the department role in the change. He said
Aaron Zelinsky, a career under Attorney General he ordered the new filing
Justice Department pros- William Barr. The Justice hours before the president's
ecutor who worked on Department did not imme- tweet because he was In this Nov. 15, 2019, file photo Roger Stone exits federal court in
cases as part of special diately comment. Before caught off guard by the Washington.
counsel Robert Mueller's Stone's Feb. 20 sentencing, initial sentencing recom- Associated Press
investigation, including the Justice Department leader- mendation and believed the facts of the case. Filing decision based on the mer-
case against Stone, will say ship changed the sentenc- it was excessive based on a new one was a "righteous its," he has told the AP. q