Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, testifies before the Senate in September 2020. | Graeme Jennings/Getty Images

“A surge super-imposed on that surge”: Fauci warns that the coronavirus pandemic may still get worse.

The United States’ leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned in a Sunday Meet the Press interview that another surge of Covid-19 cases “super-imposed on that surge that we’re already in” might be coming, in large part due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Public health experts have been warning Americans of the risk of congregating for the holiday as the US experiences its worst Covid-19 surge yet — Dr. Jonathan Reiner told CNN Tuesday that Thanksgiving could become “the mother of all superspreader events.” Despite these warnings, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) figures suggest that more than 1 million Americans traveled