Many Americans will likely want to celebrate this Sunday’s Super Bowl as they have in previous years, with large, snack-filled watch parties. But Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser and the nation’s top infectious disease official, is urging people to break from tradition to prevent a potential spike in COVID-19.
In appearances on NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday morning – and again at a White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing – Fauci implored people to limit their gatherings to household members only.
“You don’t want parties with people that you haven’t had much contact with, you just don’t know if they’re infected,” he told Good Morning America. “So as difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it.”
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