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White House chief epidemiologist Anthony Fauci acknowledged Tuesday that the COVID-19 pandemic is out of control in the United States, a country with a record number of infected people in hospitals.
The phase of the pandemic the United States is going through “is out of control in many ways,” Fauci said in an interview with CNN television.
“If we look at evolution, we had a peak [de casos de infeções] late winter / early spring 2020 “and” an early summer recovery, “but now” we are at a peak whose tipping for the worse is very sharp, “he admitted.
According to the epidemiologist, the United States is in a “very difficult” situation, since it does not have a low reference point in terms of contagion, from which “community expansion can be controlled by identifying, isolating and following up on contacts.” .
Anthony Fauci expressed concern about the possibility of an increase in cases in January, admitting that the evolution may be worse than that of December, a month in which the country has registered daily and unprecedented increases in cases of infections.
Between 100,000 to 200,000 infections per day
“I think we have to assume that it will get worse,” he said, adding that the United States currently has 100,000 to 200,000 infections a day, but “In a period of December, it exceeded 200,000”.
“I hope we don’t reach it again [esse valor diário]”, he said, recalling that with cases come hospitalizations and with hospitalizations come deaths.
In this context, Fauci, who was chosen by the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, to be his top health adviser, recommended continuing to practice “the simple things” that have been done.
Admitting that “it is too late” to restrict travel at this time of year, “because we are in the middle of the Christmas and New Year holidays and people have already traveled,” Fauci said that people are trying to make “people travel less. , and that those who have already done it, do not meet in large groups of people, but only with the closest family ”.
When a large group of people gather “for dinner in a closed and poorly ventilated environment, that’s when they get into trouble,” he warned.
More than 335,000 deaths in the US since the pandemic began
The United States is the country in the world most affected by the pandemic, with more than 19.3 million cases of covid-19 detected and more than 335,000 deaths, according to data from John Hopkins University.
According to the Covid Tracking Project, the United States on Monday recorded a record number of hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic, with 121,235 patients hospitalized due to illness. 22 222 in intensive care units.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,775,272 deaths as a result of more than 81.5 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
