Anthony Fauci now predicts “normalcy” will return in 2022

Dr Anthony Fauci, chief epidemiologist for the United States government, updated his predictions on when the population could “return to normal.”

“Hopefully by the start of 2022, we will really have a degree of normalcy that comes close to the kind of normalcy we have been used to,” Fauci said in a recent newspaper interview LA Times.

Former White House adviser on the pandemic He had calculated the return to “normality” for the fall of 2021 in the United States, that is to say between September and December of this year. However, his analysis of how circumstances have changed since then made him consider other delays.

Fauci, who is also President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said the shift in perspective It is clear from the current pace of the vaccination campaign and the global emergence of different strains of the virus, all present in the United States..

“I think we can’t be complacent and have to approach the situation with variants of the virus. But things should improve, especially as more and more people are getting vaccinated. We should see a sharp drop, a continuation of the drop in new infections per day that we are currently experiencing. So Hope if all goes well the situation will improve over the months», He detailed.

In contrast, in a report on the program CBS this morning, Fauci also said that vaccinating all teachers against COVID-19 before schools reopen “is not feasible”, thus contradicting the assertion of US Vice President Kamala Harris. “If you say that all teachers should get vaccinated before going back to school, I frankly think that is a situation that is not sustainable,” he said.

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, agree that teachers should be given “absolute” priority among essential workers in immunization efforts.

“You should try to vaccinate as many teachers as possible as quickly as possible,” Fauci said. “But for make it a condition sine qua non (excluding) opening a school until all teachers are vaccinated, I think that is not possible, and most teachers would probably agree with that.

According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 72.5 million doses have been dispensed in the United States, of which more than 56.2 million have been administered. Almost 15.5 million received both doses of inoculants, either that developed by Pfizer or by Moderna. The Joe Biden administration indicated last week that by June the country will have 600 million doses, enough to inoculate virtually the entire population.

The United States recorded 2,446 COVID-19 deaths and 71,984 new infections on Wednesday, reaching a total of 490,160 deaths and 27,820,237 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, according to an independent count from Johns Hopkins University.

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