Anthony Fauci announced that the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will be given to the population at risk “reasonably soon” in the United States

The main person responsible for the fight against the coronavirus in the United States, the doctor Anthony Fauci, estimates that the third dose of the vaccine will be administered to the population at risk “reasonably soon”, in the midst of the debate over whether or not authorities should approve a new booster injection due to the “revolutionary” increase in new cases.

“We have to see them from another angle. Of course, we will call these people before the general population who have already been vaccinated, and we should start doing it pretty quickly, ”the White House chief epidemiologist said in an interview with the CNN.

Fauci assured that all those people with weakened immune systems, including those who have recently had an organ transplant or received chemotherapy, “never got an adequate response ”from the coronavirus vaccine, so they should receive a third dose.

On the possibility of this booster dose being administered to other groups of people in vulnerable situations, Fauci left it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this decision and indicated that “as soon as” more data becomes available, the list will be updated.

“As soon as they verify that the level of durability of protection has decreased, the recommendation to vaccinate these people will be announced”, he underlined with reference to the adults and those who they live in residences.

“Vaccines still do what they were originally supposed to do, keeping people out of the hospital and preventing them from getting seriously ill,” stressed Fauci, who again warned of the daily increase in coronavirus cases, exceeding the 100,000 mark, especially due to the Delta variant, much more contagious.

The epidemiologist explained that this variant can cause infected people to transmit the disease, which recently led the CDC to change its recommendations on the use of the mask in closed places. He also indicated that the increase in cases in the country due to the spread of the Delta variant it can be reversed with additional vaccines.

The COVID-19 epidemic in the United States crossed this Saturday 100,000 new confirmed cases per day, a mark last passed with increasing infections before winter and driven by the delta variant of the virus, much more contagious, and low vaccination rates in the south.

At the end of June, the United States averaged about 11,000 cases per day. Now the number is 107,143.

Health officials fear that hospitalizations and death cases will continue to rise if more Americans do not get vaccinated. Nationally, 50% of people are fully vaccinated and more than 70% of adults have received at least one dose.

It took about nine months for the United States to break through the average number of 100,000 cases in November before peaking at 250,000 in early January. Cases hit rock bottom in June, but it took them about six weeks to hit 100,000 again, despite the fact that more than 70% of the adult population has received a vaccine.

The seven-day average daily deaths from the virus have also increased, data from Johns Hopkins University shows. The death toll has increased over the past two weeks, from around 270 deaths per day to nearly 500 per day on Friday.

The virus spreads rapidly through unvaccinated people, especially in the south of the country, where patients are bringing down hospitals.

The number of Americans hospitalized with the virus has also skyrocketed, and the crisis has become so severe that many hospitals are once again struggling to find beds for patients in remote locations.

With information from Europa Press and AP

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