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In an interview with Jim Sciutto, of the CNN network, the main epidemiologist of the White House, Anthony Fauci, acknowledged this Tuesday (12.29.2020) that the pandemic is out of control in the United States, where record numbers of hospitalizations are registered, and he assured that January will be even more difficult than December in terms of infections and deaths.
“We’re on a rally, as we call it, Jim, which is, you know, out of control in many ways,” Fauci said. “If you look at the evolution from late winter-early spring 2020, we had a peak in late winter-early spring, another rebound in early summer, and right now we are at a peak, whose worsening, whose inflection it’s very sharp. “
The specialist added that the United States, by far the country most affected by the spread of SARS-CoV-2, has never been able to dominate the course of the pandemic or flatten the contagion curve. Only in these circumstances is it possible “to control community expansion through identification, isolation and follow-up of contacts,” he said.
Assuming January will be worse
Fauci, who has faced outgoing President Donald Trump on several occasions and has been confirmed by President-elect Joe Biden as his chief medical adviser, recommended continuing to do the simple things that have been done (masks, hand washing, physical distancing). , and those who have already traveled to reunite with their families, he asked “not to get together in large groups of people, only the immediate family.”
For Fauci, January will be even worse than December. “I think we have to assume it is going to get worse, you know, we are between 100,000-200,000 infections a day. There was a period in the worst part of December, when it was above 200,000, which I hope we will not reach again. because it makes us stagger: you have cases, you have hospitalizations and, consequently, deaths, “he said.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, this Tuesday the United States added almost 19,335,000 infections, with more than 335,000 deaths. This means that nearly 6 percent of the country’s population has contracted SARS-CoV-2 since February.
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