The NIAID director is confused as to why this hasn’t already happened.

As of Thursday, the United States has a confirmed 245,175 cases of COVID-19 with 6,059 deaths, an upward trend that currently shows no signs of slowing down. Governors of 39 different States, as well as the District of Columbia, have enacted stay-at-home orders to curb the virus’s progress as much as possible, but many parts of the country have remained relatively lax. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, isn’t sure why the US government hasn’t pulled the trigger on a country-wide order.

“You know, the tension between federally mandated versus states’ rights to do what they want is something I don’t want to get into,” Fauci told CNN. “But if you look at what’s going on in this country, I just don’t understand why we’re not doing that.”

Governors have echoed Fauci’s message in addition to enacting their own local orders. “What more evidence do you need? If you think it’s not going to happen to you, there are many proof points all across this country; for that matter, around the rest of the world,” California Governor Gavin Newsom told CNN.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer chimed in as well, adding that the country should have a “national strategy instead of a patchwork of policies.”

President Trump, for his part, does not believe a country-wide order is necessary. “You have to look — you have to give a little flexibility,” he said at a White House press briefing on Wednesday. “If you have a state in the Midwest, or if Alaska, for example, doesn’t have a problem, it’s awfully tough to say, ‘close it down.’ We have to have a little bit of flexibility.”