The White House health advisor warns return of COVID-19 in the fall

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House health advisor saidan interview with the Economic Club of Washington on Tuesday that he was 'almost certain' the coronavirus would come back in the fall.

He says the country "could be in for a bad fall" if researchers don't find an effective treatment to fight the pandemic by then.

COVID-19 is "not going to disappear from the planet," he said, adding infectious disease experts are learning about how the virus behaves by watching emerging outbreaks in other regions such as southern Africa that are starting to enter their colder seasons.

"In my mind, it's inevitable that we will have a return of the virus, or maybe even that it never went away," he said.

(Cover: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases speaks as President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force at the White House April 13, 2020 in Washington, DC./Getty Images.)

(CGTN)