Oa Friday night, The Late Show is Stephen Colbert could finally realize a dream he had had for a year: to dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading expert on infectious diseases, to welcome the program (of course, of course).
‘I wanted you for a year. We tried to keep you going every week for a year. We could never find you, ”said Colbert. ‘Around January 20, your schedule really opened up. What has changed? ”
‘Everything!’ exclaims Doctor Fauci.
Yes, while former President Trump is vacationing in Mar-a-Lago and trying to take more than his fair share of credit for the rapid production of multiple COVID-19 vaccines, President Biden, who Dr. Fauci characterized, considered ‘a complete -head press to get more vaccine available. About 2 million people are vaccinated every day, and the process is going so well. Biden says that by May 1, all adults in the U.S. will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. Fauci fueled this primarily by the improved coordination between federal and state governments under President Biden.
‘In every aspect of the effort, Stephen, is that before, earlier in the previous government, a lot of discretion, a lot of authority, a lot of decision-making was left to the states themselves … but what we have now is co-operation, co-operation and a synergy between the federal government and the states to get things done, ‘said Dr. Fauci explains. “I always felt during the previous year that there needed to be more interaction in terms of synergy.”
Colbert has dr. Fauci asked when things would return to normal, and he replied that by the fall we could see scaled-down audiences taking on different forms of entertainment. But for now, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has urged Americans to continue wearing a mask and to distance themselves socially until infection numbers drop – even if you have already been vaccinated.
“Although the number of cases is declining very sharply now, it has started a bit flat in recent weeks and if it is plateaus, it is flat at an unacceptably high level – about 50-60,000 new infections per day,” said Dr. Fauci said. ‘And every time we see a plateau at that level, there’s always a risk of a resurgence. What we do not want to do is to get another boom. We want it to decrease. ”