welcome, cofounder of the covid tracking project at the atlantic and atlantic staff writer alexis madrigal. ♪ hello, everyone. i am pleased to introduce dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci, welcome to the atlantic festival. dr. fauci: thank you. are more thanere who -- 200,000 americans have died from they coronavirus, i want to bring you back to march. you said that the middle-of-the-road -- your middle-of-the-road estimate was that 100,000 americans would die from covid-19. now that we are past the higher end of your predictions -- dr. fauci: the numbers speak for themselves. there have been some situations where things have worked well and other situations where they have not. we got hit badly particularly in the early part when the north eastern part of the country was ofounting for almost half all the infections, hospitalizations, and it deaths and then when they turned back around and came back down, they came back down to a baseline that was low and stayed low. they suffered terribly but now they are in a good place. at the situation we then went into is one that is troublesome. when we tr