In an interview, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a serious warning to the American people: not yet celebrating the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Another boom could happen if we are not careful.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, Fauci expressed concern about public health officials not seeing a steady and significant decrease in infections, and Johns Hopkins University alone had more than 61,000 on that day. new cases reported. (COVID-19 was also the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020.)
Fauci characterized the state of the COVID-19 pandemic as a race between vaccination of humans and the boom that apparently wants to increase. ‘He notes in particular an increase in cases among young people, which he attributed to a number of factors – including that older genes Americans were likely to be vaccinated; the reopening of facilities such as day care and school sports events; and the occurrence of one specific coronavirus variant in the United States.
This variant, known as B.1.1.7, has its origins in the United Kingdom, is known to be more transmissible than other coronavirus strains and is thought to be more lethal. The strain is now the most common coronavirus variant in the United States, making it so much more urgent that as many Americans as possible should be vaccinated. Fauci is not alone among U.S. public health officials who have expressed concern that if the rate of vaccinations does not keep pace with the spread of mutant viruses, some of the progress we have made in fighting the pandemic could be reversed.
“I am going to reflect on the recurring feeling of impending doom,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told reporters at a news conference last month. “We have so much to look forward to. So much promise and potential from where we are and so much reason for hope. But now I’m scared.”
Walensky added that she was concerned that Republican governors in states such as Texas, Mississippi and Alabama were abandoning the COVID-19 restrictions. Earlier this month, after the CDC announced that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of U.S. deaths in 2020, Walensky told reporters that ‘the data should once again serve as a catalyst for each of us to continue our to take part in dispelling business. and reduces the spread of COVID-19 and allows people to be vaccinated as quickly as possible. ‘
Fauci made a similar remark to Cooper on Wednesday, arguing that Americans “should hang on there a little longer” and adding that “this is not the time, as I have said so many times, to declare victory early. not.’
The recent remarks of the public health official were similar to those he made about the possibility of a resurgence during a maintenance with Joe Scarborough of MSNBC Tuesday.
“As long as we continue to vaccinate people effectively and efficiently, I do not think it will happen,” Fauci said at the time. “That does not mean we are not going to see an increase in business yet.”
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