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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was on CBS' Face The Nation on Sunday, and during his interview, he was asked if the United States "is on the same trajectory as Italy," which has struggled to handle the coronavirus pandemic.

"Not necessarily at all," he said. "I mean, obviously, things are unpredictable, you can't make any definitive statement, but if you look at the dynamics of the outbreak in Italy, we don't know why they are suffering so terribly, but there's a possibility, and many of us believe, that early on they did not shut out as well the input of infections that originated in China and came to different parts of the world. One of the things that we did very early and very aggressively, the president put the travel restriction coming from China to the United States and most recently from Europe to the United States because Europe is really the new China. Again I don’t know why this is happening there to such an extent, but it is conceivable that once you get so many of these spreads out they spread exponentially and you can never keep up with the tsunami.”

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Are we on the same trajectory as Italy in fight against #coronavirus? @NIAIDNews head Dr. Anthony Fauci says "Not necessarily at all."

He notes the country adequately shut out the input of the virus from China early on. "You can never keep up with the tsunami," he says.

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President Trump imposed a travel ban with China on January 31, 2020. He was widely criticized for it. Joe Biden even accused Trump of “fearmongering” and “xenophobia” for the travel ban, but World Health Organization experts admitted in February that the travel ban saved lives in the United States. Dr. Fauci is now saying that the ban may prevent the United States from experiencing the same problems Italy has.

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In all the gloom and doom, and media-driven nihilism, there is actually an array of good news. As many predicted, as testing spreads, and we get a better idea of the actual number and nature of cases, the death rate from coronavirus slowly but also seems to steadily decline.

Early estimates from the World Health Organization and the modeling of pessimists of a constant 4 percent death rate for those infected with the virus are for now proving exaggerated for the United States. More likely, as testing spreads, our fatality rates could descend to near 1 percent.

There is some evidence from Germany and to a lesser extent South Korea, that it may be possible to see the fatality rate dip below 1 percent. And with the breathing space from the lockdown, better hygiene (the degree of constant and near-obsessive cleaning at businesses that are still open is quite