Fauci rules out new closures in US

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Published: 2021-08-01 20:23

Last Updated: 2024-03-28 19:09


Fauci rules out new closures in US
Fauci rules out new closures in US

White House health advisor Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he does not believe that the United States will implement closure measures again, even if the situation “deteriorates” due to “the outbreak of the epidemic among the unvaccinated.”

A few days after vaccinated people returned to wearing masks indoors and amid an outbreak of the Delta mutant, Fauci sought reassurance during an ABC interview, saying it was unlikely that the United States would find itself again "in the same situation as in the winter." 

"I don't think we will again apply closure measures," he added.

Despite everything, "the situation will deteriorate," he said, referring to "the spread of the epidemic due to the unvaccinated."

He continued, "The solution is to receive the vaccine, and in this case all this will not happen," praising the effectiveness of vaccines against Covid-19, which "makes the infection not dangerous" and prevents "from hospitalization or possibly death."

He added, "However, when unvaccinated people become infected, they contribute to the spread of the epidemic, which ultimately affects everyone."

"Vaccines are highly effective even against the delta mutant," Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, confirmed via CNN.

He stated that the new restrictions mean that vaccinators are eventually "able to transmit infection", but they aim "mainly to protect the unvaccinated" because those vaccinated are "25 times less likely to contract a serious disease," he said.

Collins praised the increase in the number of vaccinators, saying, "In Louisiana, the vaccination rate has tripled in the past two weeks" and increased by "56 percent" at the national level.

"The good news is that people get the message," he said.

60 percent of American adults have received the vaccine, but there are significant differences between the better vaccinated North and the more frequent South.