Anthony Fauci assured that the United States has left the phase of the coronavirus pandemic

The White House’s top epidemiologist, Anthony Fauciaffirmed this Wednesday that the United States left the pandemic phase of covid-19being with low levels of infections, deaths and hospitalizations.

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“Certainly now we are in this country outside the pandemic phase, that is, we do not have 900,000 new daily infections or tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level now,” he said. Fauci in an interview with the CBS television network.

Despite considering that the country is out of the pandemic phase, Fauci He pointed out that he does not believe that the coronavirus will be eradicated.

“What we can maintain is a very low level and vaccinate people intermittently, I don’t know how often, it could be every year, or even more time to maintain the low level, but now we are not in the phase of a pandemic in the country,” he remarked.

However, he pointed out that if the world situation is observed, “there is no doubt that the pandemic continues”, since, he explained, there are still very rapid and widespread infections in different parts of the world.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), new daily cases of covid-19 in USA they are not exceeding 60,000 in April, after the rebound suffered in January by the omicron variant where the million new infections per day were exceeded.

Similarly, those who died from the disease show a downward trend with less than 500 daily, and even with figures below 100 on some days.

During the Interview, Fauci was also asked about the effectiveness of a treatment that the Government of USA when treating the covid-19the antiviral pills Paxlovid, from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

The epidemiologist stressed that “it is a highly effective therapy” and stressed that in clinical trials it was shown that 90% of the volunteers who were administered this treatment were protected from a worsening of the disease and from ending up hospitalized.

Fauci He said that the Government has many doses available and that there are places where the person can take a test for covidand if you test positive, receive Paxlovid immediately.

Source: Elcomercio