Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed that coronavirus is a serious disease. “not going to go away”As concerns of the Omicron variant rise.
“We certainly are not going to eradicate it,”Fauci stated that Meet the Press. “We’ve only eradicated one virus and that’s smallpox. Elimination means there’s none of it in the country like we have now with polio and with measles. I don’t think we’re gonna be there with this.”
“What I do think we will be able to do is get a level of control that’s low enough that it doesn’t interfere with our function. It doesn’t have a major impact on society and what we do. It’s not going to go away. The lower we get it, the better off we’ll be, and you get it that low when you get the overwhelming majority of the population vaccinated and boosted,” Fauci went on.
Fauci stated that the mutations in the omicron variant were “troublesome”And he wants to make certain that “we’re prepared for the worst.”
“It’s in with our own grasp of how we’re going to be able to live with the virus. The lower we get it, the lower the dynamics of virus in the community, the lower the risk to everyone, including vaccinated people,” Fauci said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been no cases of Omicron variant in the United States. South Africa was the first to detect the virus. Since then, there have been cases reported in. Israel, Botswana and Hong Kong..
The United States is Travel restrictionsMonday was Monday in eight southern African countries, including South Africa (Botswana), Lesotho and Mozambique (Eswatini), Malawi, Namibia, Botswana and Botswana), Botswana (Sudan), Botswana, Botswana), Lesotho.
Fauci thanked South African scientists for their openness to information on the omicron variation, but he also supported travel restrictions.
“When you diminish or stop or block travel from a particular country, there’s a reason for that. It’s to give you time to do things,” Fauci said. “The positive effect is to get us better prepared, to rev up on the vaccinations, to be really ready for something that may not actually be a big deal, but we want to be sure that we’re prepared for the worst.”