AMERICA IS ‘OUT OF THE PANDEMIC PHASE’: SAYS FAUCI

Thu 28 April 2022:

Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s main medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stated on PBS’s “NewsHour” on Tuesday that the United States is “certainly, right now, in this country, out of the pandemic phase.”

“Currently we don’t have thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of hospitalization and nor we have 9,00,000 plus new cases every day,” Fauci informed.

Fauci however warned that “COVID-19 isn’t completely gone” while asserting that “it is definitely going to stay for long”.

“We’re not over the pandemic. Don’t let anybody get the misinterpretation that the pandemic is over, but what we are in is a different phase of the pandemic,” he said. “A phase that’s a transition phase, hopefully headed toward more of a control where you can actually get back to some form of normality without total disruption of society, economically, socially, school-wise, etc.”

Fauci noted that, in fact, Covid-19 cases are trending up again, though it’s not anywhere near the rise we saw over the winter with the Omicron wave.

“So what we need to do is continue to be vigilant, to follow the CDC guidelines, to do the kinds of things that protect you: Get vaccinated, if you’re not vaccinated; get boosted if you’re eligible for a boost. If you do get infected, be aware that there is availability of antivirals.”

The United States is the worst-hit country due to the virus with 81,100,500 virus cases and over 900,000 fatalities. Earlier this year, the country was hit with the Omicron wave but the COVID-19 cases have been on the decline since.

The average daily COVID-19 cases have dropped to 54,000 which is far below the peak COVID-19 figures. US vice-president Kamala Harris, 57, had recently tested positive for the virus, however, she was declared asymptomatic.

The US vice-president’s husband Doug Emhoff was infected with the virus last month. Amid the declining cases, the White House warned that “any American could get Covid” while declaring that the Omicron variant is “very, very contagious”.

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