‘I think people are underestimating how bad this is going to get': Dr. Ashish Jha on the delta variant - CNBC

Jha told CNBC's "The News with Shepard Smith," that the infection rate could be worse if it were winter, and predicted the delta spike could peak within two months. ?

"It might peak in September, but we are far away from the peak, right now we are doing 40,000 cases a day, it's going to go substantially higher before it peaks," Jha said. .

The delta variant has spread rapidly through the U.S., accounting for more than 83% of sequenced cases in the U.S