US could see 200,000 Covid cases a day again: ‘Unvaccinated are sitting ducks’

Director of National Institutes of Health pleads with Americans to get their shots as Delta variant ravages the country

The US could soon see Covid-19 cases return to 200,000 a day, a level not seen since among the pandemic's worst days in January and February, the director of the National Institutes of Health warned on Sunday.

While the US currently is seeing an average of about 129,000 new infections a day - a 700% increase from the beginning of July - that number could jump in the next couple weeks, Dr Francis Collins said on Fox News Sunday.