- Dr. Fauci does not believe that life in the United States will return to normal until sometime in 2021, at the earliest.
- Fauci also said the United States will not return to a pre-coronavirus lifestyle until most Americans receive a vaccine.
- With COVID-19 still spreading rapidly in many states, a group of doctors recently wrote a letter urging lawmakers to institute a second shutdown.
The terrifying thing about the coronavirus pandemic, in addition to the fact that it is still spreading rapidly in dozens of states, is that the situation may worsen once fall falls. Once the weather cools and the flu season picks up, doctors believe an increase in new coronavirus cases is likely.
At the same time, the odds of researchers proposing an effective coronavirus vaccine before the end of the year appear slim. While the first clinical trials with potential candidates for the coronavirus vaccine have been promising, it appears that we will not have a vaccine ready until early 2021 at the earliest. Accordingly, Dr. Anthony Fauci recently said that life in the United States will not return to normal until next year, even at best.
“The calendar he suggested for reaching 2021, well into the year,” said Fauci. CBS News“So I can think of a successful vaccine – if we could vaccinate the overwhelming majority of the population – we could start talking about real normalcy again. But it is going to be a gradual process. “
With ongoing work on a coronavirus vaccine, the encouraging news is that there is an unprecedented and concerted effort among researchers to develop a vaccine for a single virus.
Touching on this point, Dr. Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health recently said:
I have never seen anything this way, as we have tried to do and are now doing, for vaccine development. And the government, by providing additional resources, has also allowed now to plan the manufacture of vaccine doses even before knowing if the vaccine will work.
Although work on a coronavirus vaccine has been promising so far, an effective vaccine is by no means a guarantee. In the worst-case scenario where researchers can’t develop a vaccine, Fauci earlier this month said that the coronavirus could end up rivaling the Spanish flu in terms of severity. Recall that the Spanish flu devastated the world and killed more than 50 million people in the early 20th century.
“If you look at the magnitude of the 1918 pandemic, where 50 to 75 million people worldwide died,” Fauci said, “that was the mother of all pandemics and truly historic. I hope that not even let’s get closer to that with [COVID-19] but you have the ability to approach it seriously. “
Currently, the United States has seen more than 4 million cases of coronaviruses that have resulted in almost 150,000 deaths.
Longtime Mac user and Apple enthusiast, Yoni Heisler has been writing about Apple and the tech industry in general for over 6 years. Her writing has appeared on Edible Apple, Network World, MacLife, Macworld UK, and more recently, TUAW. When not writing and analyzing the latest happenings with Apple, Yoni likes to watch Improvisation shows in Chicago, play soccer, and cultivate new addictions to television shows, the most recent examples being The Walking Dead and Broad City.
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