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The main epidemiologist of the US Government, Anthony Fauci, warned this Sunday that the country’s hospitals will be filled with patients again in the next two weeks due to the rapid expansion of the omicron variant of covid-19.
“If things follow the path that is being marked now, in a week or two 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.
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Fauci said that the most recent variant of the virus “it is spreading fast all over 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 so easily makes it equally dangerous.
“We will see an upturn in infections, there is no doubt about it. But there is a major difference in severity between a person who received the vaccine and the booster dose and one who did not, “he said.
Recommend prudence
Looking ahead to the approaching Christmas period, the chief epidemiologist of the White House He recommended caution to everyone on these dates, even those who have already received the booster dose of the vaccine, and recalled that you must wear a mask at airports and on airplanes.
He also recommended not attending events in which there will be people whose vaccination status is unknown.
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