President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday that despite the growing risks, he does not expect the United States to return to the lockdown. COVID-19 infection Consists of Delta variants.
“I don’t think we will see a lockdown,” Fauci, who is also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on ABC’s “This Week” program.
Fauci said that with the raging COVID-19 Delta variant, the United States is heading in the “wrong direction”
“I think we have a sufficient proportion of the population in the country-not enough to contain the epidemic-but I believe it is enough to prevent us from falling into the situation of last winter.”
Although Fauci believes that the United States does not need to shut down again like last year, he warned on the ABC that as the Delta variant continues to spread, “the situation will get worse.”
“In this country, we have 100 million people eligible to be vaccinated but not vaccinated,” he said.
According to Reuters analysis, the average number of new cases reported every day has almost doubled in the past 10 days, and the number of hospitalized patients in many states is exploding.
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