Washington:
President Joe Biden’s chief healthcare adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci stated on Sunday he does not count on the United States will return to lockdowns, in spite of the expanding dangers of COVID-19 infections posed by the Delta variant.
“I don’t think we’re going to see lockdowns,” Fauci, who is also director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stated on ABC’s “This Week.”
“I think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country – not enough to crush the outbreak – but I believe enough to not allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter.”
Although Fauci does not believe the United States will need to have to shut down once more as it did last year, he warned on ABC that “things are going to get worse” as the Delta variant continues to spread.
“We have 100 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not getting vaccinated,” he stated.
The typical quantity of new situations reported every single day has almost doubled in the previous 10 days and the quantity of hospitalized patients in several states is surging, according to a Reuters evaluation.
At the similar time, the quantity of Americans receiving vaccinated has improved.
“The silver lining of this is that people are waking up to this and this may be a tipping point for those who have been hesitant,” National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins told CNN on Sunday. “That’s what desperately needs to happen if we’re going to get this Delta variant put back in its place, because right now it’s having a pretty big party in the middle of the country.”
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