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A doctor on the front lines of battling the coronavirus in the US said the pandemic will likely keep Americans at home for several weeks as it runs its course.

In a “Today” show interview Friday morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Americans shouldn’t expect to go back to their daily routines for quite a while.

“If you look at the trajectory of the curves of outbreaks in other areas, it’s at least going to be several weeks,” Fauci said. “I cannot see that all of a sudden next week or two weeks from now, it’s going to be over. I don’t think there’s a chance of that — I think it’s going to be several weeks.”

But Fauci noted that the availability of COVID-19 testing in the country is now on the upswing.

“Clearly more needs to be done, but we are rapidly getting to the point where we will have multiple tests available out there for virtually everyone early on,” he said on the program. “As I’ve said, it wasn’t as much as it should have been. But now we’re very much in the right direction, flooding the system with it … It’s not a perfect system yet, but we’re getting there very rapidly.”

By Friday morning, more than 14,000 COVID-19 cases had been reported in the US, and just over 200 deaths.