The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is likely to announce new guidelines before the end of this week on reopening classrooms in America for personal learning, ” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House medical adviser, told Special Report. .
“I think it will be important, rather than trying to get other opinions on it, let’s see what the leadership shows and then we can all discuss the different aspects of the leadership,” Fauci told host Bret Baier. “But I’ll be pretty sure it’s coming out before the end of the week.”
Earlier in the program, Fauci reiterated that although he sees teachers as ‘essential staff’ and that ‘it would be important to get them vaccinated’, there are situations where you can probably still get children back to school, provided you do so. do in a safe. environment, with respect to masking and other social health measures. ‘
With two vaccines spreading and a third from Johnson & Johnson, which is likely to be available in the coming weeks, Fauci told Baier that the US has a plateau and a decline in the number [new] incidents, [a] quite significant reduction. We hope to stay in that direction.
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“This is the good news,” Fauci added. “The somewhat challenging news is that we have variants, namely mutations, that have taken place in places like the United Kingdom that are now here in the United States. And … the data we get from our British colleagues is that it is a virus tends to transfer more easily from person to person, which means we need to double our public health measures.
Fauci said that early tests “showed the vaccine we are now distributing, although the supply has not yet fully met the demand, the vaccine is effective against the variant that is predominant in the UK. So we have a task before us.We need to do two things at once.We need to adhere to the social health measures: masking, physical distance, avoiding congregations.
“At the same time, we are getting as many people vaccinated as possible. This will help curb the outbreak and also limit the spread of these variants, which are important here in the United States and in other countries.”
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When Baier asked Fauci to say when he believes Americans could go to a concert, theater performance or sporting event without masks, Fauci replied: ‘If we can get it – and I used it as an estimate, it is not definitive – if we can vaccinate 70-85% of the population and what we would hope would be some herd immunity, which is really an umbrella or a veil of protection against the community where the virus level is so low that it is not a threat at all, then you could start thinking at that point in terms of the fact that you do not have to wear uniform masks, but we are definitely not close yet. ‘
“If everything falls into place and we get it under control, it’s possible you could pull back a bit from some of the social health measures when we get to the late fall of this year,” he added. But there is no guarantee for that. ‘