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AZProgressive

(29,322 posts)
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 01:53 PM Oct 2021

Fauci says unvaccinated create danger of fifth COVID-19 wave

President Biden's chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that unvaccinated Americans could pose a threat to the country's progress on the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially incurring a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections.

"The problem is, as we all know, we still have approximately 66 million people who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not vaccinated. The degree to which we continue to come down in that slope will depend on how well we do about getting more people vaccinated," Fauci told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace.

"If we don't do very well in that regard, there's always the danger that there'll be enough circulating virus that you can have a stalling of the diminishing of the number of cases and when that happens, as we've seen in the past with other waves that we've been through, there's the danger of resurgence," Fauci said.

Fauci explained however that a resurgence of another wave of COVID-19 cases was preventable, saying that the more people get vaccinated, the less likely there will be another surge going into another winter during the pandemic.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/577092-fauci-says-unvaccinated-create-danger-of-fifth-covid-19-wave?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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Fauci says unvaccinated create danger of fifth COVID-19 wave (Original Post) AZProgressive Oct 2021 OP
Can we just call these anti-vaxxers bio-terrorists? East-A-Squared Oct 2021 #1
End Times!?? appalachiablue Oct 2021 #2
Starting in western PA, I'm sure spinbaby Oct 2021 #3
It's no wonder that PA has been averaging the mid - upper 5000 cases per day BumRushDaShow Oct 2021 #8
A poem Marthe48 Oct 2021 #4
I see 5 waves alreaady - wonder which one he isn't counting Ms. Toad Oct 2021 #5
April 2021 probably not considered a wave. Johnny2X2X Oct 2021 #6
Could be - Ms. Toad Oct 2021 #7

spinbaby

(15,090 posts)
3. Starting in western PA, I'm sure
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 03:15 PM
Oct 2021

I live outside of Pittsburgh in Trump country where bars and restaurants are crowded, practically no one wears a mask anywhere, and the local hospital’s ICU is 100% full.

BumRushDaShow

(129,096 posts)
8. It's no wonder that PA has been averaging the mid - upper 5000 cases per day
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 10:04 AM
Oct 2021

for the past couple weeks and that ain't coming out of here in Philly (we are running in the upper 200 cases/day or just under 3% positivity out of 1.6 million people)!!!!

Marthe48

(16,975 posts)
4. A poem
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 10:21 AM
Oct 2021

It seeks you here, it seeks you there, the Covid seeks you everywhere

Will it kill you? Will it not?

Please be safe and get the shot.

(thanks to Baroness Orczy, who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
5. I see 5 waves alreaady - wonder which one he isn't counting
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 11:56 AM
Oct 2021

Peaking in: April 2020, July 2020, January 2021, April 2021, September 2021

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