Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wears a double mask at the briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Tassos Catopodis/Getty Images
- Covid-19 may be brought under control in the United States in the spring of 2022.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci said that as more vaccines are approved, it paves the way for more people to be vaccinated.
- He said that if those who have not been vaccinated or are hesitant to vaccinate, then “there will be light at the end of the tunnel.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that the United States may control Covid-19 early next year and may receive broader vaccine approvals in the next few weeks. This is one day after Pfizer has received broader FDA approval for its injections.
The top US infectious disease expert said in a TV interview that the US Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of Pfizer vaccine paved the way for more people to be vaccinated, and Moderna Inc and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines may be approved in the next few weeks, and Approval for use in young children may be this fall.
“If we let the 80 to 90 million people who have not been vaccinated, unwilling to be vaccinated or have no chance to be vaccinated to account for the vast majority, I believe we can see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he said. Tell NBC News’s “Today” program.
“We can turn things around,” he told MSNBC.
Read | After the FDA officially approved their Covid-19 vaccine, Pfizer and BioNTech surged
President Joe Biden’s senior medical officer and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci, told MSNBC that he expects Moderna and Johnson & Johnson to obtain full FDA approval “relatively soon,” possibly within a few weeks to a month. Inside.
He told NBC News that “I think there is a reasonable chance” that Pfizer or Moderna could obtain FDA approval for young children before the upcoming holiday. “Hopefully before the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the early winter.”
Fauci told CNN late Monday night
If we can get through this winter and truly vaccinate the vast majority of the 90 million people who have not been vaccinated, I hope we can start to get some good control in the spring of 2022.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech received full FDA approval on Monday. Moderna and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccines are still authorized by the FDA for emergency use.
US health officials expect Monday’s action will prompt more state and local governments as well as private employers and other entities to vaccinate against COVID-19. Fauci said this, combined with the possibility that some vaccine skeptics may receive a vaccine after the FDA has obtained more comprehensive approval, may help to reverse the situation.
“It’s all up to us,” he told NBC.
