Dr. Fauci says if the 'overwhelming majority' of people get vaccinated, we might have COVID under control by spring 2022.
Fauci went on to say that it’s important at this point to just vaccinate as many people as possible, even if they’ve already been infected with COVID-19.
“To me, that means that you have the overwhelming majority of the population vaccinated,” he said. “Those who have been infected and have cleared the virus will have a degree of protection, and we’re recommending that those people also get vaccinated, because the degree of protection that you can induce in someone who’s been infected who has then recovered and then vaccinated is an enormous increase in the degree of protection.
Fauci did recognize that the path to getting the pandemic under control may not be easy, even with 150 million Americans vaccinated. The winter may bring another surge, and new variants of the virus are keeping scientists and public health officials guessing. “Getting through the winter could be complicated by influenza, but as we get into the spring, we can start getting back to a degree of normality,” Fauci explained. “Namely, reassuming the things that we were hoping we could do: restaurants, theaters, that kind of thing. But again, there’s a big caveat there. This is a very wily virus.
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