The White House has held ‘serious talks’ with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that those vaccinated for COVID-19 visit together, according to Drs. Anthony Fauci – who said he was eager to take the advice and finally give a hug. his daughter after a year.
He noted that “although it is not supported by data, it is supported by common sense”, Fauci told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday night that people who have received all their doses can start visiting.
Fauci, who serves as scientific adviser to President Biden, noted that ‘although the risk is not zero, the risk becomes extremely low if you have both parties vaccinated.
“So we’re going to start seeing people say, ‘Hey, the more people are vaccinated, I can have dinner with my family member,'” he said.
“Before they were vaccinated, they would have to be quarantined for a while, tested, wear a mask,” the country’s leading doctor said in infectious diseases.
“My professional judgment is that if my daughter wants to come in here and she’s been vaccinated double, I want her over the house and give her a big hug that I could not do for a year,” he added.
Fauci also discussed the new coronavirus strain in the Big Apple that shares some of the characteristics with the South African variant.
As of mid-February, the variant – named B.1.526 – was present in about 12 percent of the coronavirus samples collected in the city and surrounding areas, according to researchers from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
‘You know, it’s just started a group in the Washington Heights section of Columbia Medical Center, and then it went through the other parts of the city, the other districts, and it’s something you really want to pay attention to because it has some worrying mutations, the group mutations, ‘Fauci told CNN.
‘Again, that’s why you keep doing public health measures and get as many people vaccinated as you can. “Anything you throw at us after a mutant will be resisted by having people vaccinated,” he said.
Asked if the current vaccines work against the variant, Fauci said: ‘No, we do not know if it works directly against it, but that’s the point you want to pass on to humans.
“Although this vaccine is not directly linked to a variant that can occur, wherever – South America, South Africa, California, New York – the higher the level of protection against the original, there is a spread of the protection against the variant. “