Associated Press/Patrick Semansky Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a Sunday interview on CBS that he could not say the country has the novel coronavirus under control as he warned of an expected increase in COVID-19 deaths over the next week. "We are struggling to get it under control and that's the issue that's at hand right now," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation." From January to March, the president repeatedly claimed that the virus was under control. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The United States does not have its response to the novel coronavirus under control, Dr.