NIH official says coronavirus 'on the verge' of becoming global pandemic unless containment becomes 'more successful' By JUSTINE COLEMAN “Technically speaking, the [World Health Organization] wouldn’t be calling this a global pandemic. But it certainly is on the verge of that happening reasonably soon unless containment is more successful than it is right now,” Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said. Read the full story here