Dr. Anthony Fauci has just performed a legendary feet for politicos and public servants in Washington: On Sunday, he appeared on all five of the major national "Sunday Shows" of the main news networks: ABC's "This Week", CNN's "State of the Union", CBS's "Face the Nation", NBC's "Meet the Press" and Fox News's "Fox News Sunday", cementing his role as the face of the federal response to the coronavirus outbreak that has emptied out super markets and stoked panic across the US, where nearly 60 have already died.

Overall, his tone was optimistic, but cautious. During his appearance on CNN, Fauci acknowledged that "it's possible" that "millions could die" from the virus if the US didn't act quickly to combat the outbreak. During his interview on "Meet the Press," Dr. Fauci said he would "open" to a 14-day shutdown of schools and businesses in the US. He also said that Americans should be prepared to "hunker down" for a while.

"I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing," Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

He told Chuck Todd that all Americans need to be cautious, but people in areas with "obvious community spread" need to be extremely cautious. All people everywhere still need to be practicing social distancing, including young people who think they're not a high risk for severe infection.