At CNN's coronavirus town hall, viewer Robin in Riverside, California, asked top public health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci: "If we've been under stay-at-home orders for two weeks, why is the peak still yet to come?"
Fauci, the country's top medical expert on the coronavirus pandemic and a member of President Trump's coronavirus task force, said that it's in part because there is a delay in seeing the order's effect, despite knowing that the virus' incubation period can be up to two weeks
"Even when you suppress or stabilize the number of new infections, it's still going to take a little while before you decrease in hospitalizations, a decrease in intensive care and a decrease and deaths. And in fact, deaths are the last thing that lag. So you could be doing well, and having a good effect on mitigation, and still see the deaths go up," Fauci said. "I guarantee, that's exactly what's going to happen in New York City."
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