washington some young and fit people were also becoming seriously ill due to novel coronavirus anthony fauci the top infectious diseases scientist on the white house covid19 task force told nba star stephen curry on instagram livethe questionandanswer session on thursday lasted almost 30 minutes and was watched by around 50000 viewers including former us president barack obama and pop star justin bieber reports efe newscurry who after feeling ill took a coronavirus test which turned out to be negative said his intention in holding the interview with fauci was to provide as much information as possible to young peoplemany falsely believed that the virus only affected the elderly and those with underlying health conditions but fauci said that medical officials in the us have found that the virus is also attacking young and fit peoplewhat we are starting to see is that there are some people who are younger people your age young healthy vigorous who dont have any underlying conditions who are getting seriously ill fauci told the 32yearold golden state warriors point guardits still a very very small minority but it doesnt mean that young people like yourself should say im completely exempt from any risk of getting seriously ill he addedfauci said young people should be aware that they may unconsciously transmit the novel coronavirus to elderly and ill family membersmore on covid19 coronavirus pandemic complete coverage coronavirus what are the symptoms 52 testing sites for coronavirus in india helpline numbers for states and uts do fever and cough mean you need covid19 test how to stay safe how to quarantine yourself at homewe need to make that point fauci said this is serious business we are not overreactingcurry asked him what the experts were looking at in order for there to eventually be sports events and mass gatherings held again without the risk of spreading the virusyou need to see the trajectory of the curve start to come down weve seen that in china they went up and down theyre starting to get back to some normal life theyve got to be careful they dont reintroduce the virus into china but theyre on the other end of the curve said faucikorea is doing that theyre starting to come back down europe particularly italy is in a terrible situation theyre still going way up the us is a big country we have so many different regions he addedin a grim milestone the us on thursday surpassed china where the virus originated last december in terms of confirmed casesaccording to the latest updates by the john hopkins university the us has a total of 85505 cases while china has 81782 the overall death toll in the us currently stands at 1290fauci acknowledged that new york city was having a hard time trying to prevent the spread of the coronavirus but that there were other parts of the country where the situation was positive and different at the same time which was the reason for the