Omicron variant 'raging' around the world, we know virus is very unpredictable: Dr Anthony Fauci
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Omicron variant 'raging' around the world, we know virus is very unpredictable: Dr Anthony Fauci

India Today  

The Covid-19 omicron variant is “just raging around the world,” the White House's top medical adviser said on Sunday, and President Joe Biden is planning to give “a stark warning of what the winter will look” for unvaccinated Americans. Dr Anthony Fauci, the county's leading infectious disease expert, told NBC's “Meet the Press” that “the real problem” for the US hospital system is that “we have so many people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who have not yet been vaccinated.” The prospect of a winter chilled by a wave of coronavirus infections is a severe reversal from the optimism projected by Biden some 10 months ago, when he suggested at a CNN town hall that the country would be back to normal by this Christmas. 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. “And if you look even here in the United States, you have some regions that start off with a few percent of the isolates that are positive, now going up to 30 per cent, 40 per cent, and some places 50 per cent.” Psaki's announcement Saturday on Twitter came after Vice President Kamala Harris said in a Los Angeles Times interview that the Biden administration “didn't see Delta coming.

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