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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
East-A-Squared
(14,505 posts)appalachiablue
(41,145 posts)spinbaby
(15,090 posts)I live outside of Pittsburgh in Trump country where bars and restaurants are crowded, practically no one wears a mask anywhere, and the local hospitals ICU is 100% full.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)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)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)Peaking in: April 2020, July 2020, January 2021, April 2021, September 2021
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)Just the last bump from the January 2021 wave.
Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)Although there is a trough that precedes it.