Anthony Fauci asserted that the United States will not return to containment, but stressed that the unvaccinated “make vulnerable” the others.

The doctor Antoine Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, said on Sunday that does not expect the United States to return to containment, despite the increasing risks of COVID-19 infections posed by the Delta variant.

“I don’t think we’ll see lockdowns“Fauci, who is also director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on ABC” This Week. “

“I think we have a sufficient percentage of people in the country – not enough to crush the epidemic – but I think we have enough to keep us from getting to the situation we were in last winter.”.

While Fauci doesn’t think the United States will have to re-lockout like last year, warned in ABC that “things will get worse” as the Delta variant continues to develop. “We have 100 million people in this country who can get vaccinated and who are not,” he said.

Fauci argued that unvaccinated affect others because they “allow the epidemic to spread and spread,” and he has counterattacked critics who say whether or not to get vaccinated is an individual decision. Fauci said those who decide not to be vaccinated They affect the rights of Americans particularly prone to infection because they “invade their individual rights” by “making them vulnerable”..

The average number of new cases reported each day has nearly doubled in the past 10 days, and the number of hospital patients in many states is increasing, according to an analysis by Reuters.

The Delta variant accounted for at least 83% of COVID-19 cases nationwide, the CDC estimated last week.

Florida set a record for daily cases on Saturday, but Gov. Ron DeSantis said, “There won’t be any closings, there won’t be any school closings. There will be no restrictions or warrants in the state of Florida. Floridians have had and will continue to be free to choose what is best for them and their families. The Republican, known for his opposition to the policies of the CDC and Fauci, which he accuses of wanting to impose a “dystopia”, has taken no action to deal with the rebound of the pandemic in the state.

According to the decree he issued, it will be the parents who will decide whether their children go to school with a mask, but there will be no official decree.

Masks to protect the unvaccinated

Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, said on Sunday that federal guidelines that urge vaccinated people to wear masks indoors in communities with high COVID-19 spread have the primary purpose of protecting unvaccinated and immunocompromised people.

The expert explained in the program “The State of the Union” of the CNN that the use of face masks may be helpful when viral infections increase in parts of the United States, as studies show that vaccinated people can pass the virus on to others.

But he pointed out on Sunday that masks are not a substitute for vaccination, which works “extremely well” and reduces “25 times” the risk of a person suffering from serious illness and being hospitalized, including the delta variant.

Collins warns that right now the virus is “celebrating a big party in the center of the country,” but the upside is that now more people are being vaccinated. He says companies may have to step up to require vaccination, and it can be argued that airlines are considering it for passengers as well. In recent days, Disney and Walmart have asked their employees to get vaccinated.

(With information from Reuters, EFE and AP)

KEEP READING: