Dr. Anthony Fauci Monday said he is not sure when he will support the requirement for Americans to wear face masks, but says it is “conceivable” that he could reinstate a number of “public health measures” by late fall.
“Is there going to be a time we are not going to have any masks?” Fox News’ Bret Baier asks Fauci in an evening interview. ‘When is it time? If you had to guess – go to sports, go to the theater, go to a concert without a mask? ‘
The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases replied: ‘It will really depend on how we will reduce the level of the virus in the community. If we can get – and I used that as an estimate, it is not definitive – if we can get 70 to 85 percent of the population vaccinated, and we can achieve what we would hope for some degree of herd immunity to be an umbrella or a veil of protection … where the virus level is so low that it is not a threat at all, then you can start thinking at that point in terms of not having to wear uniform masks .
“But we are definitely not there yet,” he added. “When do I think this would happen? It’s very difficult to predict, Bret, but if everything falls into place and we get it under control, it’s possible to pull back a little on some of the social health measures when we get to late fall. of this year. But there is no guarantee for that. ”
Fauci, who was notorious at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March, said there was “no reason to walk around with a mask on” and called on Americans to wear face masks in the months that followed. In January, he advised Americans to wear two masks, and in an interview with NBC News said, ‘If you have a body coat with one coat, you put on another coat, it’s just common sense that it probably will be more effective. This is why you see people doing double mask or a version of an N95. ”
Some jurisdictions have nevertheless begun to relax mask regulations, including Iowa, where right. Kim Reynolds (R) this month eliminated rules requiring masks to be worn, in addition to limiting the number of people who could meet in pubs and restaurants.
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