Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
Coronavirus, Afghanistan, Carl Reiner View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story June 30, 2020 Your Tuesday Evening Briefing By Remy Tumin and Hiroko Masuike Good evening. Here’s the latest. Pool photo by Kevin Dietsch 1. “I’m very concerned because it could get very bad.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned that the U.S. could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day . The surge in infections, largely in the South and West, puts “the entire country at risk,” he said. There are currently about 40,000 new daily cases. Here’s the latest map and case count and what you should do if you’re having symptoms . The stark warning came at a Senate hearing where health officials spoke about the need to reassure people about the safety of vaccines. Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the agency had spent around three months de...