Anthony Fauci, America’s prime infectious ailments specialist, has warned that the US could possibly witness a “surge upon a surge” of new coronavirus instances instances in the weeks just after Thanksgiving due to cold climate and travel.
“We don’t want to frighten people, but that’s just the reality,” Xinhua news agency quoted Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as saying on Sunday evening in an ABC News interview.
“Having said that, we have to be careful now because there almost certainly is going to be an uptick because of what has happened with the travel.
“We recognize the value of households acquiring collectively. And it really is just a thing that we have to deal with that we probably will have an enhance in instances, as we get into the colder weeks of the winter, and as we method the Christmas season,” he added.
Fauci urged travellers to be safe when returning home from holiday travels, encouraging them to quarantine if possible and to get tested.
When asked if people should expect similar restrictions and recommendations for Christmas this year, the top expert replied: “I cannot see how we’re not gonna have the identical issue mainly because when you have the sort of infection that we have, it does not all of a sudden turn about like that.
“So clearly in the next few weeks, we’re gonna have the same sort of thing and perhaps even two or three weeks down the line… We may see a surge upon a surge.”
Fauci added that he did not foresee “a relaxation” of the present Center for Disease Control (CDC) restrictions.