Dr. Fauci says the United States is out of the ‘pandemic’ of Covid-19, goes into transition mode ‘Local disease’

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The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci said the United States was out of the COVID-19 pandemic based on the number of hospitalizations and mortality. which has decreased so much that the government is able to lift the mask compulsory measure

Dr Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said in an interview with PBS NewsHour on Tuesday that: “Certainly, our country is out of the pandemic now.”

Later on Wednesday (27), Dr. Fauci gave further clarification to the Washington Post newspaper that The whole world is still under the covid-19 pandemic. “without a doubt,” but the United States began to enter The “transition period” in which the virus does not cause as many deaths or hospitalizations as it did when the Omicron strain. “Full-blown epidemic” (full-blown pandemic phase) during the past winter.

“We faced a full-blown pandemic a few months ago. At that time, there were as many as 900,000 new infections a day, tens of thousands of people were hospitalized. And as many as 3,000 people die a day,” Dr Fauci said, “but now the daily death toll has dropped from 3,000 to about 300.”

Dr Fauci predicted in May last year that the United States would be able to “control” COVID-19 by the fall. But the outbreak of the “delta” species has prevented that goal. There is also a wave of outbreaks of the omikron strain that has caused the total number of infections in the United States. soaring to a record high

Although the outbreak of the BA.2 and BA.2.12.1 subspecies omicron, which spreads faster than the original strain, has led to the daily number of infections in the United States. come back up But the number of patients who need to be hospitalized is still not much.

The sharp drop in the number of critically ill patients and deaths has led Dr Fauci to believe that COVID-19 in the United States “It is transitioning to endemic disease.” that can be controlled

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday (26) that as of late February, nearly 60 percent of Americans had contracted COVID-19, including three out of four children. Officials also warned that the information was not an indication of what Americans would have. “Group Immunity”

even believing that People who have been infected with COVID-19 come to have immunity, not to be severely ill But public health experts stressed that Vaccination remains the best way to prevent serious illness and death.

Source: Washington Post

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