Global outbreaks are continuing, but Dr. Fauci says the US is transitioning into a more widespread (and potentially more manageable) endemic phase of COVID.
."Right now we're at a low enough level that I believe that we're transitioning into endemicity," Dr. Fauci explains."We're not in the full-blown explosive pandemic phase. That does not mean that the pandemic is over."
That"full-blown" pandemic phase, Dr. Fauci explains, was typified by what we experienced in 2020:". . . [W]e were having 900,000 cases a day, tens of thousands of hospitalizations, three thousand deaths a day." Right now, the country is experiencing a"low level" of COVID-19, Dr. Fauci says in the PBS interview, and the ultimate hope is to keep it that way."We're not going to eradicate this virus," he explains.
Building upon his PBS comments, Dr. Fauci tells the Washington Post that the US is"transitioning into more of a controlled endemicity." A disease reaches the endemic phase when it is constantly present in the population but is controlled by treatments and vaccines, according to the. That level stands in contrast to a pandemic, which Dr. Fauci defines as"widespread infection throughout the world." However, Dr.
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