Dr. Anthony Fauci says 'there's no reason' why vaccinated families can't celebrate Thanksgiving together.
in 2021 surpassed the number of COVID-19 deaths in 2020, with the total number of deaths now reaching more than 770,000. Raddatz pressed Fauci to explain how deaths increased, and he cited the delta variant --"which is very, very different from the original variants that we were dealing with before."
"This is a virus that is highly transmissible," he said."The more people that get infected, the more people are going to get hospitalized. The more people they get hospitalized, the more people are going to die." Fauci noted that another difference between this year and last year is the availability of vaccines, and he stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
"We now have vaccines that are highly effective and clearly very safe, particularly now with the recent data showing that we can vaccinate children from 5 through 11," Fauci said."There are 28 million children within that age category. If we started vaccinating them now, they'll be fully protected by Christmas."With the holidays coming up, Raddatz also asked Fauci to explain what safety precautions families can take this holiday season.
"If you're vaccinated -- and hopefully, you'll be boosted, too -- and your family is, you can enjoy a typical Thanksgiving meal or Thanksgiving holiday with your family," Fauci said."The thing we are concerned about is the people who are not vaccinated, because what they're doing is, they're the major source of the dynamics of the infection in the community. And the higher the level of dynamics of infection, the more everyone is at risk.
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