Dr. Anthony Fauci warned members of Congress on Tuesday that the U.S. could soon see 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day if the public fails to heed guidelines. 'There's no doubt that wearing masks protects you,' he said.
Drs. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Stephen Hahn, Food and Drug Administration commissioner; and Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, also testified.Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., urged people to take CDC guidelines to wear a face covering seriously and lamented the politicization of mask-wearing.
"Either be locked down or you see people in bars, not wearing masks, not avoiding crowds, not paying attention to physical distancing," Fauci described."I think we need to emphasize the responsibility we have both as individuals and as part of a societal effort to ending the epidemic." Fauci also said that questions remain about how long someone who received a vaccination would retain immunity and that the"durability" of immunity could influence how often someone would need to receive an updated vaccine.
"I feel very strongly we need to do whatever we can to get the children back to school. So I think we are in locked agreement with that." "Convalescent plasma, we have evaluated the safety through a large expanded access program at the Mayo Clinic and it's been found to be safe, and over 20,000 patients who administered it," Hahn said.
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