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Fauci, a member of President Trump’s coronavirus task force, said he agreed with President-elect Joe Biden’s warning that cases are expected to increase as families reunite during the holiday season.
“Since we went from late fall to early winter, the numbers are really worrying,” Fauci added.
And he continued, before adding the Christmas meetings: “With more than 120,000 in the hospital, we are really in a critical stage. Although we advise otherwise, it will happen.”
And he predicted that with the distribution of Pfizer’s Corona and Moderna vaccines in the coming months, American health experts should see the general population achieve significant herd immunity by the end of next summer.
“I think it will probably be the middle of next summer until the end of summer, so I hope … by the fall we reach that critical percentage of people,” Fauci said.
His comments came in response to a question about Biden’s comments on the pandemic during a press conference last Tuesday, at which point Biden urged Americans to remain vigilant as they adhere to social distancing and other measures over the holidays. Christmas to stop the spread of the Corona virus.
“Experts say things will get worse despite the vaccine,” Biden said. “The average death rate is close to 3,000 a day. This means that we will lose tens of thousands of lives in the next few months and the vaccine will not be able to stop that.”
“So we still have to be vigilant,” he added.
