Fauci: Biden is right about the worst of the COVID pandemic yet to come

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“Since we’ve gone from late fall to early winter, the numbers are really worrisome,” Fauci said.

“With more than 120,000 hospitalizations, we’re really at a critical stage,” he said, before adding Christmas meetings: “Even though we advise not to do so, it will happen.”

He advanced that with the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines from both Pfizer and Moderna in the coming months, U.S. health experts should see how the general population would achieve significant herd immunity by the end of next summer.

“I think it will probably be in the middle of the end of next summer, so I hope … in the fall we reach that critical percentage of people,” Fauci said.

His statements responded to a question about Biden’s comments on the pandemic during a press conference last Tuesday, when Biden urged Americans to be alert to social distancing and other measures during the Christmas holidays. to stop the spread of coronavirus.

“Experts say things will get worse despite the vaccine,” Biden said. “We are averaging a mortality rate of about 3,000 a day. That means we will lose tens of thousands more lives in the coming months and the vaccine will not be able to stop it.”

“So we still have to be vigilant,” he added.