America’s top infectious disease expert said a national lockdown in the United States remains a possibility as the Trump administration contends with the growing coronavirus pandemic.

“That could be, absolutely, that could be,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said about closing bars and restaurants nationwide during a White House news briefing on Sunday.

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