Fauci: ‘Unlikely’ US Will See COVID-19 Surge In Fall, Winter

Anthony Fauci the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, said Sunday that the U.S. is unlikely to see a surge of COVID-19 infections over the fall and winter like it did last year, pointing to the widespread availability of vaccines as a “game changer” that would prevent future surges.

“Well, the fact that we have vaccines right now, Chuck, is really a game changer,” Fauci told host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I mean, if we get, which we will, to the goals that the president has established, namely if we get 70 percent of the people vaccinated by the Fourth of July, namely one single dose, and even more thereafter, you may see blips. But if we handle them well, it is unlikely that you’ll see the kind of surge that we saw in the late fall and the early winter.”

“That’s the reason why vaccinations are so important. That’s the wild card that we have now that we didn’t have last fall or last winter,” Fauci added.

More than 150 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and the Biden administration has shifted to urging holdouts to get their jab amid reports that vaccine hesitancy is now the main obstacle to increasing the U.S. vaccination rate.

Read more at The Hill.

{Matzav.com}