Washington.- The main epidemiologist of the White House, Anthony Fauci declared that the United States has exited the Covid-19 pandemic phase thanks to the fact that it registers low levels of infections, deaths and hospitalizations.
In an interview with the CBS television network, Anthony Fauci highlighted that the USA has stopped accounting for 900,000 daily Covid-19 infections, as well as the thousands of deaths and hospitalizations that marked the most critical moments of the pandemic.
“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’re at a low level right now,” the White House epidemiologist said.
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Despite considering that the USA is out of the pandemic phase, Fauci 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 intermittentlyI don’t know how often, it could be every year, or even more time to keep the level low, but now we are not in the pandemic phase 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 fast infections and widely in different parts of the world.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the new daily cases of covid-19 in the USA are not exceeding 60,000 in April, after the rebound suffered in January by the omicron variant where it was exceeded million new infections per day.
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 United States government has opted for when treating covid-19, the antiviral pills Paxlovid, from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
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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 against a worsening of the disease and ending up hospitalized.
Fauci said that the government has many doses available and that there are places where the person can be tested for covid, and if it is positive, receive Paxlovid immediately.
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