Anthony Fauci, the White House’s leading anti-epidemic expert, warned the American people in recent days that no one should be surprised if a new and more dangerous variant emerges this winter. “We should expect that we will likely see another variant emerge that eludes us from infection or vaccination,” Fauci said at an event this week at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. The immune response to the vaccine. “
The US financial media CNBC reported that from a statistical point of view, current data on the trend of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 in the United States is declining. For example, as of October 5, the 7-day moving average of the number of new infection deaths in the United States is 323 people.
These figures are well below the 1,000-2,500 deaths per day in the United States in February and March, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fauci, however, urged the Americans not to give up, as winter always presents “the risk of an epidemic escalating”. We seem to be heading in the right direction, but I think it would be a little too irreverent to suddenly say that we are completely free of the virus. “
Fauci pointed out that the summer of 2021, when the United States saw a similar decline in outbreaks, followed by the Omicron variant which led to a record spike in cases last winter. Since then, several variants of the Omicron subtype have spread rapidly and have become the dominant strains in the United States.
Fauci added that “we shouldn’t be surprised” if another new, more transmissible variant emerges this winter.
US President Joe Biden said in a media interview in mid-September that the COVID-19 outbreak in the US is over, but this statement has caused backlash from public health experts and the mainstream media. .
