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The autumn and winter months are here, and just likeDr. Anthony FauciAnd other health experts predicted, the number of infections around the country is on the rise. At the Johns Hopkins University of Hopkins Health Policy Forum on Friday, the main infectious physician of the nation revealed to Bloomberg School of Public Health Dean Ellen Mackenzie that we are on the point of a major increase. Read on and do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.

Why Dr. Faisci warns things are about to worsen

During the summer, Dr. Faisci urged people to follow his fundamentals - mask with social distance, stay outside instead of being inside, avoiding crowds and practicing Hand Hygiene - In the hope of keeping the number of infections at least about 10,000 per day. - Before weather change. However, his hopes were crushed and the numbers passed instead.

"We have a baseline now, you know that the baseline has fluctuated," he says "that it never went to the level I would have hoped." In fact, the same day, its interview was broadcast, the United States recorded 70,000 new cases in one day for the first time in July.

Fuci explains that after the initial outbreak of the virus in the spring, "mainly by the northeastern and the majority in some respects of infections and hospitalizations were motivated by New York," had a decline in cases, while Other regions of the country has seen a tip.

"When he returned to New York, other states and regions of the country have increased," he explained. "The baseline has never been off a few thousand, less than 10,000 per day," he continued.

"It's a little stuck at 20,000. Then, when we try to open the economy, especially in some southern states, such as Florida, Georgia, Texas, Southern California, Arizona It was not done in a uniform way. And we started to see a thrust that came to about 70,000 a day, "he said.

Although he fell a little ", he was stuck around 40 to 50,000," he said. "You can not enter the expense months of the fall and cold months of winter with a high community infection reference base.

He then pointed out that, according to the thermal map, more than 30 states "take place in the wrong direction" in terms of test positivity, which is an indicator of infections, hospitalizations and future deaths.

And, unfortunately, the temperature falls in a large part of the country, "we will start doing a lot more things, more inside rather than outside," he said. "And that's when you need to be particularly cautious about the spread of a disease of respiratory disease."

There is still hope - if we "apply good public health measures"

However, the situation is not without hope.

"It is still not too late to vigorously apply good public health measures," he said. Instead of closing the country again, it suggests using public health measures "conservatively and prudently to help us reopen the country, to reopen the economy, to recover jobs."

"Public health measures must be the vehicle and the gateway to open the economy, not the obstacle to the opening of the economy," he concluded. So follow the careful health measures and do not visit either35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.