Washington – Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s leading medical adviser, warned Sunday that the country could be threatened with a new outbreak of COVID-19 infections, as the number of cases in the United States has remained stagnant.
“When you get off a big peak and you succeed at one point and start capping, once you stay on that plateau, you’re in danger of shooting yourself,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview with “Face the Nation. “”And, unfortunately, that’s what we’re starting to see. “
While the country experienced a sharp drop in coronavirus instances from January to early March, the number of new infections ranged from 50,000 to 60,000, according to the knowledge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). cases reached 71593, while 30 states and the District of Columbia reported an increase in infections.
Stabilizing at such a high infection rate is “a risk,” Fauci said.
While new variants of coronavirus known in the UK and South Africa “play a role” in peaks in new cases, Fauci said, spring break accumulation and declining mitigation strategies have also contributed.
“Several states have done so. I think it’s premature,” he said of lifting measures like mask clearances.
The accumulation of COVID-19 infections occurs amid biden administration’s efforts to speed up coronavirus vaccination. To deliver injections more temporarily into the arms of Americans, the federal government began offering vaccine doses directly to the network’s pharmacies and fitness centers, and last week announced a $10 billion commitment to ensure that vaccines are distributed equally.
President Biden announced Thursday that he has doubled the national vaccination target in his first hundred days to two hundred million doses. The United States has recently administered between 3 and 3. 5 million vaccines per day and 140 million doses have been administered in total, according to more than 27% of the total US population. The U. S. has won at least one dose of its COVID-19 vaccines; Pfizer and Moderna vaccines require two injections, while Johnson’s vaccines require two injections.
Fauci said that if the US were to do so, it would be in the middle of the world. But it’s not the first time It continues at a rate of more than 3 million doses administered, “invariably will decrease the rate and point of infections according to the day”.
If we get to the summer and you have a significant percentage of the vaccinated population and the point of the network falls below that plateau that considers me and my public health partners, is that you have smart flexibility during the summer, even with children, with things like camps,” he said. We don’t know for sure, but I think it’s an ambitious purpose that we deserve to target. “
Fauci predicted that some coronavirus restrictions will be eased last spring and early summer as more Americans get their vaccines.
“There are another 50 million people in this country who are fully vaccinated. That’s a lot of other people. And every day we get more and more,” he said. “I would expect that in the summer, last spring, in early summer, there will be a break where there will be more and more people who will be allowed in baseball parks, maximum probably separated by seats, maximum will probably continue to wear masks. Since we have a very low point of infection, you will begin to see a decrease in some of those restrictions, I hope. And I think that’s going to happen. I think if we get it right and distribute the vaccines at the rate we do, it will happen. “