The COVID-19 task force member at the White House was speaking on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday

  • Fauci said hospitals around the country report shortages of ICU beds for patients.
  • "the reason is that, you know, we're in that situation that we predicted a few weeks ago as you get into the holiday season and people have done a considerable amount of travelling
  • it could get worse over the next couple of weeks as we see the lag that happens when an event occurs like the Christmas and New Year's holiday. You usually have a couple of week lag before you see an additional uptick of cases, which is always followed by hospitalizations and deaths."