Fauci: April should be “open season” for vaccines

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Anthony FauciAnthony Fauci: Double masking works, according to a CDC study More than 30 percent of Americans say they will not get the COVID-19 vaccine: Obama poll calls for Americans to get vaccinated in a tweet aimed at misinformation he said he believes April will be “open season” for vaccines in the country, and that anyone who wants to get a vaccine will be able to get one.

Speaking to NBC’s “Today”, Fauci, the country’s leading doctor and scientific advisor for infectious diseases President BidenJoe Biden Former Republican officials in talks to form center-right anti-Trump party: Biden report raises concerns with Xi in first call with Chinese leader President Castro: Trump incited the crowd ‘against his own vice president ‘MORE, predicted that the vaccination rate will increase in the spring as more doses become available and more sites start administering shots.

He said the pace will increase due to administration programs that allow pharmacies and community health centers to administer shots.

“I imagine we’ll arrive in April, that would be what I call … open season. That is, just about anyone and anyone in any category can start getting vaccinated,” Fauci said.

However, he added that it will still take “a few more months” to put the vaccine in people’s arms, but that, hopefully, the overwhelming majority of people in this country will be vaccinated by the end of summer.

Although the pace has increased to about 1.5 million people a day, the country’s vaccine deployment has been uneven, affected by the shortage of supply and the different approaches in each state.

There are only two companies with vaccines authorized in the U.S., but Johnson & Johnson is scheduled for federal review later this month, which may add to the supply available as early as March.

New cases, hospitalizations and even deaths, which had been record highs after the holiday season, have steadily declined in recent weeks, but some 3,000 people continue to die every day.

Experts have compared the current situation with calm before the next storm, when the most contagious variants become the dominant strain in the country. Although, even though Fauci said he took the threats of the new variants seriously, he wasn’t too worried.

“The disturbing news is that it’s spreading faster. We know this from the UK experience. The uplifting news is that the vaccines we have now, the Moderna and the Pfizer and most likely the ones that go online soon, seem go well against this variant of the UK, ”Fauci said.

Fauci added that people should continue to behave preventively, such as physically distancing themselves and wearing masks, but if they have been doing it all the time, nothing should change.

Fauci also clarified that on Wednesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not recommend that people wear two masks. The agency updated the guidelines on fitting masks to emphasize that the tighter it is, the better the protection.

“What the CDC says is at least wearing a mask. Okay? That’s what they say. Make sure you wear a mask,” Fauci said.

“Then you want it to fit better, so one of the ways to do that, if you want, is to put a cloth mask on it … That’s all they say,” Fauci added..

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