Once again, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s top medical advisor, is moving the goalposts on masks, and not in a good way, as Reuters report...
Once again, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s top medical advisor, is moving the goalposts on masks, and not in a good way, as Reuters reports:
“Fauci, Biden’s top medical adviser, told CNN that the approaching deaths tally was “a terribly historic milestone in the history of this country.”
Asked if Americans should expect to still be wearing masks into next year, Fauci said: “I think it is possible that that’s the case,” adding that it depended on the level of the virus in communities and potential virus variants.
“Obviously, I think we are going to have a significant degree of normality beyond the terrible burden that all of us have been through over the last year,” Fauci said.
In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Fauci said it was too soon to pinpoint when the United States might reach herd immunity.
“We want to get that baseline really, really, really low before we start thinking that we’re out of the woods.”
He told “Fox News Sunday” that whether people in the United States will later need a booster shot depends on the path the South African variant takes.
While the currently available vaccines appear protective against the UK variant that has appeared across the country, they are less protective against the South African one, which so far is not dominant, he said.
“If in fact this becomes more dominant, we may have to get a version of the vaccine that is directed specifically against the South African isolate,” Fauci told Fox, saying studies were already underway.”
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