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Fauci said there’s no definitive answer for when life returns to ‘normal'
By Lateshia Beachum
In a Tuesday morning conversation with The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, Anthony S. Fauci was hesitant to name a season or give a time frame about when life in the United States would return to how it was before the pandemic.
“You cannot give a definite answer when you have so many moving parts,” he said. “When you give a definitive time, they’ll say: ‘Oh! The scientists were wrong.’ It depends on so many factors.”
Issues with mutations and vaccine hesitancy could be barriers to reaching some normalcy by fall even as the federal government ramps up its coordination of vaccine rollouts with local governments and tries to expedite doses, Fauci said.
The Biden administration is trying to get as many people as possible vaccinated — a step that could help slow virus mutations, he said.
“If we really want to talk about truly approaching reality, we have to attack this at the global level,” he said, citing the World Health Organization’s Covax program as an example of countries partnering to fight the virus. “Wherever there’s transmission and viral outbreak throughout the world, the U.S. will always be in danger no matter what we do.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...test-updates/#link-TJBEQXEKKFAF7BX37GHA7MTMDE
By Lateshia Beachum
In a Tuesday morning conversation with The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, Anthony S. Fauci was hesitant to name a season or give a time frame about when life in the United States would return to how it was before the pandemic.
“You cannot give a definite answer when you have so many moving parts,” he said. “When you give a definitive time, they’ll say: ‘Oh! The scientists were wrong.’ It depends on so many factors.”
Issues with mutations and vaccine hesitancy could be barriers to reaching some normalcy by fall even as the federal government ramps up its coordination of vaccine rollouts with local governments and tries to expedite doses, Fauci said.
The Biden administration is trying to get as many people as possible vaccinated — a step that could help slow virus mutations, he said.
“If we really want to talk about truly approaching reality, we have to attack this at the global level,” he said, citing the World Health Organization’s Covax program as an example of countries partnering to fight the virus. “Wherever there’s transmission and viral outbreak throughout the world, the U.S. will always be in danger no matter what we do.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...test-updates/#link-TJBEQXEKKFAF7BX37GHA7MTMDE
