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Epidemic | Fauci: U.S. to determine next phase of vaccine booster this summer

2022-04-30T07:53:43.421Z


Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief White House medical adviser, expects U.S. scientists and health officials to determine the next phase of what people need by this summer.


Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and White House chief medical adviser, expects U.S. scientists and health officials by this summer to determine what type of coronavirus vaccine boosters people will need in the next phase and When should people start vaccinating people.


Fauci, who was video-attended at a National Press Club event in Washington on April 29, said the institute is conducting a clinical trial to determine whether the next phase of boosters should be locked in before the fall. For a particular mutated virus strain of COVID-19, a booster suitable for multiple mutated virus strains, also known as a "bivalent vaccine", should be designed.

"We should have the answer in the summer as to when and what type of booster to get," he said.

Fauci said the United States is struggling to achieve typical herd immunity due to the continuous evolution and mutation of the virus, immunity to infection and the weakening of vaccine immunity, as well as the anti-vaccine movement that has led to millions of people refusing to be vaccinated.

Fauci: The picture shows Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaking to Congress on January 11.

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In an interview with PBS News Hour on the 26th, he said that the government has now affirmed that the United States has come out of the stage of the pandemic.

However, the remarks have drawn dissatisfaction among some public health experts, who believe that the prediction is frivolous.

He corrected it the next day.

He told the US "Washington Post" on the 27th that the hospital admission rate and death rate caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) are much lower than those caused by the mutated virus strain Omicron (Omicron) after a wave of epidemics in winter. , the US is still in the midst of a pandemic, but this is more of a transition phase.

He once said that the five stages of the pandemic are "full outbreak", that is, the situation in the United States for most of the past two years, the second stage is "deceleration", and the third stage is "controlled", which shows that the virus is in That place becomes endemic.

He told PBS that the next phase should be elimination and eradication, but the new coronavirus will probably never be eradicated.

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Source: hk1

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