Fauci cautiously optimistic US Covid-19 Omicron wave peaking, cases could fall

WASHINGTON ) President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser on Covid-19 sounded cautiously optimistic on Sunday that the Omicron wave was peaking nationally in the United States and that cases could fall to manageable levels in the coming months.

"There are still some states in the Southern states and Western states that continue to go up," Dr Fauci said,"but if the pattern follows the trend that we're seeing in other places such as the North-east, I believe that you will start to see a turnaround throughout the entire country." Hospitals in several parts of the country are straining to keep up after multiple surges and staffing shortages, including in Mississippi, where nearly all of the state's acute-care hospitals have been pushed to capacity.

"I'm not saying it's going to happen, but we have to be prepared," he said, describing that situation as"we get yet again another variant that has characteristics that would be problematic, like a high degree of transmissibility or a high degree of virulence".

straits_times Not the first time he sprout such nonsense right? Didn’t he said not too long ago, when USA has more than 70% vaccinated, there will not be any more spike in cases?

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