Dr Fauci says high school students can be vaccinated through the fall

High school students can get a coronavirus vaccine by the coming autumn semester and primary school students by the first term of next year, said dr. Anthony Fauci predicts Sunday, citing ongoing tests on the vaccine’s ability to protect children safely.

“Maybe not the very first day,” Fauci said of high school students’ vaccination on CBS’s’ Face the Nation ‘.

Currently, the COVID-19 vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and Moderna are approved for those 18 and older, while Pfizer’s vaccine is cleared for those as young as 16.

Pfizer and Moderna have signed up for vaccine studies on children 12 years and older, with the results of these studies possibly available this summer. Both companies expect to launch with children aged 11 and under later this year, reports The Associated Press.

At the same time, Fauci, the country’s leading expert on infectious diseases, urged Americans not to keep their hats off and to continue with social distance and wear a mask, as daily cases are likely to rise again before we reach herd immunity.

New daily cases number 60,000 to 70,000 cases after a few weeks of fall, he said. History has shown that when the case counts plateau at high levels, it does not start to fall further – it rises. The current current conditions in Europe are also an indication that a possible surge lies on America’s horizon, he said.

“They are usually a few weeks ahead in these patterns,” Fauci said of COVID-19 scores in European countries. “They also came down, then they flattened out, and over the past week or so, they’ve increased about 9% in the cases.”

Fauci insisted: ‘We are going in the right direction. We just need to stay in there a little longer. ‘