The White House’s top adviser on the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said today that it was “possible” for the spread of the new coronavirus to be reduced to the point where the country experiences the virus as endemic and not as a pandemic. 2022.
“For me, if you want to become endemic, you have to lower the levels of infections so low that they do not have an impact on society, on your life, on your economy,” said the leading infectious disease specialist. “People will continue to be infected. “People may continue to be treated, but the level will be so low that we will not constantly think about it and it does not affect what we do,” he said.
To get to this point, he said, many more people would need to be vaccinated and receive booster doses.
If the United States makes booster vaccines available to all, the country is likely to control the virus by spring 2022, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, added.
“Look at what other countries are doing now about adopting a memorial campaign for virtually everyone. “I think that if we do this, and we do it with zeal, I think that by the spring we will be able to control it very well,” he added.
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