Fauci says packed children at border facility would be ‘major’ COVID concern

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday agreed that packed crowds of children at US-Mexico border facilities would be a “major concern” for spreading COVID-19.

The nation’s top infectious disease expert was shown a photo in a hearing on Capitol Hill of migrant children crowded in a border facility in Donna, Texas. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), who held up the image, said Border Patrol officials told him the facility had housed 4,000 children packed in together.