CDC director warns of 'avoidable surge' in pandemic

The United States is poised for another “avoidable” surge in new COVID-19 cases unless the public follows social distancing protocols, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky warned Monday.

“We are at a critical point in this pandemic, a fork in the road, where we as a country must decide which path we are going to take,” Walensky told reporters Monday. “We must act now, and I am worried that if we don’t take the right actions now, we will have another avoidable surge, just as we are seeing in Europe right now.”