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Coronavirus – Fauci: “Key” for pandemic control is the booster dose of the vaccine

The White House’s top adviser on tackling its pandemic coronavirus, Dr Anthony Fauci He said on Tuesday that it was possible for Covid-19 to turn from the current major health crisis into an endemic disease next year if the United States increases vaccination rates.

The booster doses For Covid-19, it is vital that we get to this point, Fauci said in an interview during the Reuters Total Health conference, which runs from November 15 to 18.

“For me, if you want the virus to become endemic, you have to drop the infection levels so low “so that they do not have an impact on society, on your life, on your economy,” said the leading infectious disease specialist.

“People will continue to be infected. People may continue to be treated, but the level will be so low that we will not constantly think about it and will not affect what we do“, write down.

Recommendation for vaccination with booster doses in the general population

To get to this point, he said, will be needed much more people to be vaccinated and to take booster doses.

If the US does available to all vaccines for booster doses, the country is likely to control the virus until the spring of 2022, added the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.

“Look at what other countries are doing now about adopting a booster campaign for virtually everyone. “I think if we do that, and we do it with zeal,” he said, “then by spring we will have much better control of the situation,” he said.

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