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For: EFE
Wednesday, November 6
Dr. Fauci assures that almost “everyone” will contract the coronavirus
WASHINGTON – The government’s top epidemiologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Wednesday that almost “everyone” will get Covid sooner or later, but he predicted that the disease will be “less severe” thanks to vaccines and booster doses.
“Pretty much everyone will end up exposed and probably get infected, but if you are vaccinated and get booster shots, the chances of you getting sick are very, very low”, said Fauci during the weekly press conference of the response team of the White House to the coronavirus pandemic.
Fauci thus endorsed the words of the interim commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA , in English), Janet Woodcock, who the day before stated that “most people will end up with covid-19”.
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The epidemic myologist clarified that the fact that the majority is infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus does not mean that most people become seriously ill with covid-19, since vaccines “improve protection against hospitalization and death.”
Fauci insisted that covid- 19 “cannot be eradicated”, but defended that will finally be controlled thanks to vaccines and booster doses, and people “He’s going to live with her.”
In the same press conference, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in English), Rochelle Walensky, noted that the risk of hospitalization with the Omicron variant it has been reduced by 53 % compared to the delta, while that the risk of entering a unit of c Intensive care has dropped by 74 % and that of death, by 91 %.
United States beat on Tuesday a new record for hospital admissions by covid-19, with more of 145,000 people hospitalized in health centers due to the advance of Omicron, which is already the dominant variant with the 98 % of cases and is more contagious than the previous ones.
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