Brett Giroir, the Trump administration’s COVID-19 testing czar, on Wednesday implored Americans to follow coronavirus safety advice over the Thanksgiving holiday — warning that America is currently at “a critical and very dangerous part of this pandemic.”.

The Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary and member of the White House coronavirus task force told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that “the end of the pandemic is in sight” with the imminent arrival of vaccines.

But he noted how new infections, hospitalizations and deaths from the contagion continue to rise, with more than 1,900 deaths from COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours alone.