On the Sunday after Christmas, Dr. Anthony Fauci had a warning for CNN viewers: The nation may be on the brink of a “post-seasonal . . . Christmas, New Year’s surge” of coronavirus cases.
For weeks, as COVID-19 cases climbed across the country, Fauci spread the word that the U.S. could face a “surge upon a surge.” Christmas could be worse than Thanksgiving, he said, because the holiday gatherings often lasted longer, sometimes a week or more.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, then an adviser to President-elect Joe Biden, predicted a “surge upon a surge upon a surge.”
Mainstream media outlets warned readers to “brace …
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