WASHINGTON: A potential increase in US COVID-19 cases probably won’t amount to a full-scale increase or prompt a renewal of broad restrictions, one of the presidents Joe Bidentop advisers said.
“The bottom line is that we will see an uptick in cases, as we have seen in European countries, especially the UK,” Anthony FauciBiden’s chief medical adviser said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “Hopefully we don’t see a surge. I don’t think we will.”
omicron’s BA.2 subvariant Cases are rising in Europe and Asia, particularly Hong Kong, and now account for about 30% of infections in the US, where indoor-mask and vaccine requirements have been largely withdrawn.
While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has argued that the US needs to be prepared to resume measures such as requiring masks in indoor public spaces, Fauci said, “Right now, at this point, I have to not visible.”
US cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline. Fauci said BA.2 is about 50% more transmitted than the original strain of Omicron, but does not cause more severe disease or evade immunity from vaccination or earlier infection.
Fauci and US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy urged Congress to pass a stalled package of new COVID-19 relief. The White House is seeking $22.5 billion in funding, warning it will soon have to shut down programs and cannot buy more medical treatments.
“As much as we’ve done over the past two years to get the right tools, we have to continue to finance and support them so they’re available to people across the country,” Murthy said on “Fox News Sunday.” “That’s why Congress is moving to provide the funding that’s so important.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argued that too much money allocated for COVID-19 programs has yet to be spent.
“They should have reinvested some of this enormous amount of money they spent last year,” the Kentucky Republican said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday.
Fauci, 81, dismissed speculation that he might be ready to retire. Last week, he told ABC: “I can’t stay at this job forever.”
“I want to make sure we’re really out of it before I seriously consider doing something really different,” he said on Sunday. “We’re still in it. We have a way to go. I think we’re clearly going in the right direction. I hope we stay that way.”
“The bottom line is that we will see an uptick in cases, as we have seen in European countries, especially the UK,” Anthony FauciBiden’s chief medical adviser said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “Hopefully we don’t see a surge. I don’t think we will.”
omicron’s BA.2 subvariant Cases are rising in Europe and Asia, particularly Hong Kong, and now account for about 30% of infections in the US, where indoor-mask and vaccine requirements have been largely withdrawn.
While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has argued that the US needs to be prepared to resume measures such as requiring masks in indoor public spaces, Fauci said, “Right now, at this point, I have to not visible.”
US cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline. Fauci said BA.2 is about 50% more transmitted than the original strain of Omicron, but does not cause more severe disease or evade immunity from vaccination or earlier infection.
Fauci and US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy urged Congress to pass a stalled package of new COVID-19 relief. The White House is seeking $22.5 billion in funding, warning it will soon have to shut down programs and cannot buy more medical treatments.
“As much as we’ve done over the past two years to get the right tools, we have to continue to finance and support them so they’re available to people across the country,” Murthy said on “Fox News Sunday.” “That’s why Congress is moving to provide the funding that’s so important.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argued that too much money allocated for COVID-19 programs has yet to be spent.
“They should have reinvested some of this enormous amount of money they spent last year,” the Kentucky Republican said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday.
Fauci, 81, dismissed speculation that he might be ready to retire. Last week, he told ABC: “I can’t stay at this job forever.”
“I want to make sure we’re really out of it before I seriously consider doing something really different,” he said on Sunday. “We’re still in it. We have a way to go. I think we’re clearly going in the right direction. I hope we stay that way.”