Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday it was unsure when it would support the final requirements for Americans to wear face coverings, but said it was “conceivable” that it could support the withdrawal of “public health measures” by late fall.
“Will there be a time when we won’t have masks?” Fox News’ Bret Baier Fauci asked him in an evening interview. “When is that time? If you had to guess – do you go to a sports game, go to a theater, go to a concert without a mask? ”
The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases replied: “This will really depend on how we reduce the level of the virus in the community. If we can get – and we used that as an estimate, it’s not definitive – if we can vaccinate between 70 and 85% of the population and we get to what we would hope would be at a degree of herd immunity that is really an umbrella or a protective veil … if the virus level is so low that it is not a threat at all, then at that point, you can start thinking in terms that you do not have to wear uniform masks.
“But we are certainly not close to that yet,” he added. “When do I think this would happen? It is very difficult to predict, Bret, but if everything falls into place and we have it under control, it is conceivable that you may be able to withdraw a little from some public health measures as we enter the late autumn of This year. But there is no guarantee in this regard. ”
Fauci, who said infamously at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March that “there is no reason to wear a mask,” began asking Americans to wear face masks in the coming months. In January, he advised Americans to start wearing two masks, telling NBC News in an interview: “If you have a single-layer physical coverage, you’ve put on another layer, it’s just common sense that it would probably be more effective. . This is why you see people either double-masked or making a version of an N95. ”
Some jurisdictions, however, have begun to ease mask regulations, including Iowa, where the governor. Kim Reynolds (R) this month removed the rules requiring the wearing of masks, in addition to limiting the number of people who could gather in bars and restaurants.
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