Fauci warns progress in COVID fight appears to have stalled

Numbers have fallen precipitously since early January, but the seven-day case average still hovers around 70,000. That rivals last year’s summer peak and threatens to push the U.S. in the wrong direction. 'Certainly, 70,000 is not there. Not even close,' said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert. 'You've got to get way down in test positivity at the same time that you scale up the vaccine.'