The White House's top medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci says the COVID-19 Omicron variant is 'just raging around the world' and again urges Americans to get vaccinated.
The COVID-19 Omicron variant is “just raging around the world,” the White House’s top medical advisor said Sunday, and President Biden is planning to give “a stark warning of what the winter will look like” for unvaccinated Americans.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tried to defend the president’s earlier promise in a separate interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”“The idea about hoping and having an aspiration to be independent of the virus after a period of time is understandable and reasonable,” Fauci said. “But the one thing that we know from, now, almost two years experience with this virus, is that it is really very unpredictable.
“We can do very concrete things that actually reduce the costs for Americans,” said Polis, noting that Colorado is cutting vehicle registration fees and making it free to register a new business. Fauci told NBC the president would again urge people to get the booster shot, highlight increased availability of testing, discuss “surge teams” for besieged hospitals and explain how important it is to provide vaccines for the rest of the world.
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