Dr Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that he would not rule out that Americans would still have to wear masks by 2022 – even if the country is back to a certain degree of “normality”.
On CNN’s “State of the Union” whether masks are needed next year, Answer Fauci“I think it is possible that this is the case, and it really depends on what you mean by normality.”
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said he did not know when the country would return in the pre-pandemic, but that he believed that by the end of the year ‘we will have a significant degree of normality further’ as the terrible burden we have all gone through over the past year. ”
‘As we come in autumn and winter, towards the end of the year, I agree [President Joe Biden] completely that we will approach a degree of normalcy, ”Fauci said.
“It may not be exactly like in November 2019, but it will be much better than what we are doing now.”
But he said wearing the mask depends on how common the virus remains.
‘It depends on the level of the dynamics of the virus that occur in the community, and it’s really important, because … if you see that the level is really going down very low, I want it to go down to a ‘Baseline that there is virtually no threat – it will never be zero – but a minimal, minimal threat that you will be exposed to someone who is infected,’ Fauci said.