Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, said on Sunday that he supports Coronavirus disease As the highly contagious coronavirus delta variant continues to fuel a surge in cases across the country, schools require children to be vaccinated.
In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” program, Fauci said: “I think it’s a good idea to mandate that children be vaccinated at school.” “We’ve been doing this for decades and need to be vaccinated. “Poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis” vaccines.
Fauci said that even if you are fully vaccinated, you have to “test” for COVID-19 because the Delta variant is raging
Currently, children under the age of 12 are not eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. But Fauci said in another interview with ABC’s “This Week” program that by early October there should be enough data for the US Food and Drug Administration to consider whether the vaccine is safe for children under the age.
“I think there is a reasonable chance that Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines have a reasonable chance” to obtain FDA approval for children under the age of 12 before the upcoming holiday, said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the White House. The House of Representatives, said last Tuesday.
As schools reopened in the fall, the increase in coronavirus cases has caused serious damage.
According to data from the tracking website Burbio, dozens of schools across the country have had to postpone or close the school since the start of school in August. Its data show that the impact on schools has been the most severe in the South so far, where the current surge in cases is at the center, and the vaccination rate of eligible people is usually the lowest in the country.
According to a Reuters report last week, according to industry executives and state health officials, the reopening of schools has also led to a shortage of COVID-19 testing supplies in the United States, as schools resumed surveillance programs that required tens of millions of tests.
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