Anthony Fauci
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Fauci told CBS magazine’s “Face the Nation” magazine on Sunday that he worries that cases have begun to hit the plateau after coming down “very abruptly” more or less last week.
“Historically, if we look at the different floods we have had, when they go down and start to reach the plateau at a very high level … [60,000] up to 70,000 new cases a day is not an acceptable level, it is really very high. “
The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases added that Europe, which “usually has a couple of weeks ahead of these patterns”, saw its level rise before an increase of 9 % in the cases ”.
Fauci expressed suspicion about the states that have announced the complete lifting of the mandates of masks and public restrictions, and said that “we want to return carefully and slowly when it comes to withdrawing mitigation methods, but we do not activate and we turn off the switch, because it would be really risky to have another climb again, which we don’t want to happen, because we are rising to a fairly high level ”.
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He also warned people not to lower their guard as the weather gets warmer, and said “we’ve been through this movie before.”
He added that, unlike 2020, vaccines will continue to “dramatically increase” availability by the summer.