It’s too early to determine whether Americans should avoid large family gatherings for Christmas and other holidays due to COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauc said.
COVID-19 cases and deaths have begun to plateau, but vaccination rates have dropped nationwide, and cases are increasing in children. The U.S. also hit a grim milestone over the weekend, surpassing 700,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Fauci noted that it’s “just too soon to tell” whether people should avoid holiday gatherings for a second year. “We’ve just got to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we’re going to do at a particular time,” he said on CBS News’s“Let’s focus like a laser on continuing to get those cases down,” he said. “And we can do it by people getting vaccinated, and also in the situation where boosters are appropriate, to get people boosted.”
Fauci warned people not to grow complacent as numbers continue to drop this fall. The surge due to the more contagious“If you look at the history … of the different surges we’ve had, it’s come up, start to come down, and then all of a sudden, boom, come back up again,” he said. “And it’s coming down, we have within our capability … to go down to a very, very low level, with vaccination and with mitigation.
“We know now that this is clearly spread by aerosol, and … you absolutely want more ventilation, which is the reason why outdoors is always much safer than indoors,” he said. “And if you are indoors, ventilation is going to be key.”CDC: “COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States.”
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