It’s “inexplicable” that some U.S. states are lifting the restrictions, as Covid-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of Americans every day, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday.
Texas and Mississippi moved this week to end mask mandates statewide.
“It’s inexplicable why you’d want to retire now,” Fauci told CNN.
“I understand the need to want to get back to normal, but you’ll only back down if you just set aside public health guidelines, especially when we’re treating 55,000 to 70,000 infections a day in the United States,” he added. very, very high base “.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the administration’s guidelines on pandemic precautions are not arbitrary.
“We know these interventions work. It’s very clear,” Fauci said. “When you apply them, you see the cases go down. When you go back, the cases go up.”