Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on Thursday that the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations in the US will be “recorded” within the next few months and that anyone – not just those in high-risk groups – could get the chance around April.
The country’s top doctor on infectious diseases said on Thursday that the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations in the US will be “picked up” within the next few months and that the “open season” for vaccinations could begin around April, with anyone – no only those in high-risk groups – who get the chance.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and President Joe Biden’s science adviser, said on NBC’s “Today” show that “the escalation was significant” in issuing the vaccine doses to Americans, and that he foresees a much greater acceleration of the dose ‘in early spring.
Fauci attributed the delivery of the two approved vaccines, the possible approval of a third and the steps taken by the Biden government to increase the country’s ability to deliver doses.
He predicted that April would have an “open season”, in which “virtually everyone in any category can start vaccinating.” From then on, it would take a few more months to ‘just get logistical vaccination in people’s arms’, but by the middle or end of the summer he predicted ‘the goal of getting the overwhelming majority of people vaccinated in this country’. must be. ‘
To date, approximately 30 million Americans have received one dose of two-dose vaccines; 10 million had both.
Fauci also told ProPublica that children as young as first grade can be vaccinated by September, saying that ‘clinical trials in what we call age reduction, where you do a clinical trial with people aged 16 to 12, then 12 to 9, then 9 to 6, ”began.
That said, other experts hope the process could go faster. Dr Buddy Creech, associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt vaccine research program, told ProPublica that immunizing children is an important step in halting the spread of the virus in general.
Otherwise, Creech said: ‘We are going to have tens of millions of individuals in our communities who can sustain the virus. And when that happens, these unusual variants can emerge that have the potential to evade our immunity. ‘
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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