Washington – Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, said on Sunday that the number of available vaccine doses would rise sharply in the coming weeks after federal approval of a third coronavirus vaccine.
‘We must gradually withdraw [on restrictions] “as we get more people vaccinated, and it happens every day, more and more people, and especially as we get more doses, which will increase dramatically as we come in April and May,” Fauci said. Nation “of reducing mitigation measures.
The Food and Drug Administration has now approved three COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use, with the most recent single-dose survey from Johnson & Johnson being given the green light last week.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US now gives at least 2 million shots a day and 87.9 million doses are given. Mr. Biden predicted there would be enough vaccine provision to cover all adults by the end of May, while Fauci said high school students are likely to be able to receive their vaccinations by the fall period and elementary school students by the first term of 2022.
Fauci said the federal government, as the vaccine supply increases, “should put a lot of pressure on getting it into people’s arms.”
“But by then we are going to do much, much better,” he said. “We’re going to have community vaccination centers, and vaccinations in pharmacies.”
While the number of new cases of coronavirus in the US has declined sharply in recent weeks, public health officials warn that the country has hit a plateau of between 60,000 and 70,000 new infections per day, which according to Fauci ‘is not an acceptable level ‘.
This flattening comes as some states such as Texas and Mississippi begin to lift mask mandates and other restrictions designed to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus against the leadership of federal public health officials.
Fauci said the country was moving in the right direction, but stressed that mitigation measures should be rolled back slowly and carefully as more Americans are vaccinated.
“Do not turn the switch on and off, because it would be really dangerous to have a surge again, which we do not want because we are plateauing at a very high level,” he said.
While the number of Americans who received their shots continues to grow, the Biden government has not yet provided guidance on activities for those who have been fully vaccinated.
But Fauci said the CDC’s guidelines should come out ‘immediately’ within the next few days.
“Every day that passes we will get better and better because we put 2 million vaccinations in the arms of individuals every day, and as the days and weeks go by, you have more and more protection, not only from individuals but also from the community, ‘he said. “So we’re going in the right direction. We just have to hang out there a little longer. “