Joe Biden’s advisor warned of an increase in infections and said at the moment they would not be giving vaccines

“In recent weeks, after very high peaks of infections, the plateau has been reached at higher than desirable levels: it was 20 to 30,000 infections per day. Lately we’ve seen a rebound of 30, 40, 50,000 cases. , and last week in the last three days it was 63,000 “, described the specialist.

“Our concern is that this upward trend could lead to a significant increase in the peak of infections”, warned the virologist, during an interview on the Italian television channel RAI 3, replied by the ANSA agency.

Despite the more than 117 million people vaccinated with at least one dose and 70.6 million with both recorded in the United States, the spread of the virus continues to increase and in the last day more than 80,000 new cases have been reported, according to data officers. .

“We hope that as the number of people vaccinated increases over the weeks, that growth will be slowed down, but we don’t know for sure yet. In some states, like Michigan, New York, and New Jersey, infections started to rise again instead. to stabilize, and that’s worrying “, big.

The spike is especially pronounced in Michigan, where the weekly average of new daily infections reached 6,719 on Sunday, more than double the number two weeks earlier.

Likewise, Fauci foresaw that when the entire population has been vaccinated, it will be considered “to seriously donate surplus vaccines to countries in need”, although “for the moment” no, the country having no more vaccines. doses to be administered, which he hopes that in September (at the end of summer) it will return to “a certain form of normality, limiting restrictions and increasing flexibility of movement”.

The United States, the country hardest hit by the pandemic, has racked up 81,376 infections and 904 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bringing the cumulative totals to 30, 8 and 558,028, respectively.