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Tuesday, November 5
Anthony Fauci warns that US hospitals will be filled again by Ómicron
The main epidemiologist of the US Government, Anthony Fauci, warned this Sunday that the country’s hospitals will fill another time of patients in the next two weeks due to the rapid expansion of the Omicron variant of COVID – 19.
path that is being marked now, in one or two weeks we will have our hospitals very full of people because there are many people in this country who can receive the vaccine and have not done so, “said the doctor in an interview on the NBC channel.
Fauci said that the latest variant of the virus “ is spreading rapidly around the world ”and, despite admitting that there are still doubts about its degree of severity -there are studies that indicate that it is milder than other strains-, he pointed out that the fact that it is transmitted with so easy ad makes it equally dangerous.
“ We will see an upturn in infections, there is no doubt about it . But there is a major difference in terms of severity between a person who received the vaccine and the booster dose and one who did not, ”he indicated.
Facing the approaching Christmas period, the chief epidemiologist of the White House recommended caution to everyone on these dates, even those who have already received the booster dose of the vaccine, and reminded that you must wear a mask at airports and airplanes.
He also recommended not to attend events in which there will be people whose vaccination status is unknown.
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