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Still, they believe the new strain of coronavirus should be taken “very seriously,” Anthony Fauci, the US government’s top infectious disease specialist, said Sunday.
It welcomed the decision by US officials to require passengers arriving by planes from the UK to provide a negative response to a pre-flight COVID-19 test. Fauci declined to consider whether such a move was not overdue.
Speaking on a CNN television show, he said the new mutation had to be “watched very closely” and “now we are seeing it very intensely.”
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“Is it more frustrating? Is it a more dangerous virus in terms of virulence? The answer seems to be no, “Fauci said.
According to him, British officials tell their fellow Americans that vaccines already in use appear to be effective enough to protect against the new strain of coronavirus. Still, “we will do the research ourselves,” he added.
Fauci said the United States had reached a critical stage in the pandemic, but the worst was likely yet to come. He predicted that the general public will be vaccinated in late March or early April, when the vaccination of higher-risk healthcare workers, residents of nursing and long-term care facilities, people older than 75 years and workers in essential establishments.
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