Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease official, indicated that it is COVID may be reduced to an endemic disease during the next year, with this the condition would be it would only affect certain periods and regions.
Fauci indicated that the condition for the coronavirus whether an endemic disease is to increase vaccination rates against the disease.
Booster doses of covid vaccines are vital to get to that point, Fauci assured in an interview during the Reuters Total Health conference, which takes place virtually November 15-18.
For me, if you want to be endemic, you have to keep the level of infection so low that it doesn’t have an impact on society, on your life, on your economy, “said Fauci.
“People will still get infected. People may still be hospitalized, but the level would be so low that we don’t think about it all the time and it doesn’t influence what we do.”
To get to that point, he said, it would take a lot more people getting vaccinated and receiving boosters.
If the United States makes reinforcements available to all, the country may be able to bring the virus under control by spring 2022, Fauci added.
“Look at what other countries are doing now to adopt a push-pull campaign for virtually everyone. I think if we do that, and we do it seriously, by spring we can get this under control,” Fauci said.
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