Despite the record number of patients treated with covid-19, the US may be “on the verge” of a transitional period, after which it will be possible to “live with” the virus, the top epidemiologist and government adviser said on Tuesday. Anthony Fauci Health Crisis Management.
The variant strain “Omicron with its astonishing, unprecedented effectiveness in transmitting will eventually find almost all of us,” Fauci told the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
“There is no way we can eradicate this virus,” Fauci said, given its transmissibility, its tendency to mutate into new strains and the large number of those unvaccinated against covid-19.
But “as Omicron rises and falls,” the United States will eventually enter a new phase in which there will be enough protection in the community, enough drugs available so that when one becomes infected and belongs to a high-risk group, it is easy to receive treatment. “, The epidemiologist explained.
“Once we get there, this will be the transition and we may be on the verge of it now,” Fauci said. However, the epidemiologist stressed that given that in the United States there are currently almost one million infections per day, 150,000 people are treated with covid-19 and more than 1,200 die due to the disease every day “we are not at this point”.
Nearly 146,000 people are currently being treated for covid-19 in the United States, a record number since the beginning of the pandemic. Nearly 24,000 of them are in intensive care units, according to data released by the US Department of Health on Tuesday.
The previous record was just over 142,000 patients and was recorded on January 14, 2021.
“We are not at a point where we can reasonably say ‘live with’ the virus, mainly because of the current pressure on the health system,” Fauci explained. “But I think we will get there.”
Although the epidemic can not be completely eradicated, “we can not allow the virus to dominate our lives for a long time to come,” said the epidemiologist, calling for “a new strategy” to be adopted.
In the US in recent weeks there has been a sharp rise in cases due to Omicron, which has dominated the country. Record numbers of new cases of covid-19 have been reported in the US since late December, with an average of about 18,500 covid patients being admitted to hospitals daily, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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