Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm warned on Monday of the inevitability of a new wave of coronaviruses crossing the United States.
“While vaccination is important, it’s obviously a key part of our long-term game plan, we won’t have enough vaccine, as we go, in the arms of enough Americans for the next six to ten weeks.” with that increase, we’ll stop it, ”he told Erin Burnett of CNN Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
“It just won’t happen,” he added.
Osterholm had previously pointed out how some states, even where vaccine uptake has been high, are experiencing an increase in new daily infections.
As GOP-led states lift restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the virus, new infections across the country have already stood at about 65,000. It is a detail that has worried public health experts. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and senior medical adviser to President Joe Biden, warned last week that now “is not the time to retire and declare victory premature.” .
Osterholm warned on Sunday that the next wave will most likely affect children, due to the prevalence of the more contagious B117 variant.
“Unlike previous strains of the virus, we didn’t see children under the eighth grade get infected often, or often weren’t very sick,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press”. “Children play a huge role in conveying this,” Osterholm added to Fox News.
Watch the interview here:
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