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Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted that institutions such as hospitals and possibly schools should give a COVID-19 vaccination.
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‘I would not be surprised as we have the full range of [COVID-19] vaccination, which some companies, some hospitals, some organizations need [COVID-19] vaccination, ”he said in an interview with Newsweek.
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Vaccination is slower than expected. About 3.5 million doses have been distributed since the Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccination of Pfizer and Moderna.
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Dr Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading expert on infectious diseases, said he expected the coronavirus vaccine to be mandatory in some institutions.
In an interview with Newsweek published on Friday, Fauci said he was “sure” that institutions such as hospitals should shell out the vaccine.
“I’m not sure [the vaccine is] he will be obligated from a central government point of view, like the federal government mandates, “he said. But there are going to be individual institutions that I will surely grant it. “
Fauci pointed to his own experience with the National Institutes of Health, which obliges all employees and contractors to get vaccination against flu and hepatitis B annually.
“I have to get certified every year,” he told Newsweek. “If I did not do this, I could not see patients. Therefore, I would not be surprised if we see the full range of [COVID-19] vaccination, which some companies, some hospitals, some organizations need [COVID-19] vaccination. “
Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also said schools could be among the institutions that administer the vaccine. It is also ‘quite possible,’ he said, that the vaccine will be needed for travel to and from the United States.
“Everything will be on the table for discussion” within the incoming Biden administration, he said. Biden’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The decision to standardize the vaccine as a travel requirement he cannot take, he said. But he thinks it will be a smart move, he told Newsweek.
“Yellow fever is a good example. We, in this country, do not need [people] to get a yellow fever vaccine if you go [to] somewhere. This is the place you go, that requires it, “he said. I went to Liberia during the Ebola outbreak. I had to get my yellow fever vaccine, otherwise they would not enter me in Liberia. ‘
In the United States, about 3.5 million doses have been dispensed since the Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccination of Pfizer and Moderna.
Business Insider’s Susie Neilson reported earlier that vaccination of vaccines was slower than expected, and at this rate it would take nine years to be vaccinated widely.
Elected President Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized the slow deployment of vaccines.
“The effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” Biden said in Wilmington, Delaware. At this rate, he said, “It’s going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people.”
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