Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm warned on Monday of the inevitability of a new wave of coronavirus crossing the United States.
“While vaccination is important, it’s obviously a critical part of our long-term game plan, we won’t have enough vaccine, as we go, in the arms of a sufficient number of Americans over the next six to ten weeks.” with this growth, that we will stop it, ”Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CNN for Erin Burnett.
“It just won’t happen,” he added.
Osterholm had noted earlier that some states, even if the uptake of vaccination was high, are now facing an increase in new daily infections.
As GOP-led states lift restrictions to stop the spread of the virus, new infections nationwide have now reached about 65,000. It is a detail that has troubled public health experts. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a top medical adviser to President Joe Biden, warned last week that now “is not the time to withdraw and declare victory prematurely.”
On Sunday, Osterholm warned that the future wave would most likely affect children, due to the prevalence of the more contagious B117 variant.
“Unlike previous strains of the virus, we haven’t seen children in grades 8 often become infected or often very ill,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Children play a huge role in broadcasting this, “Osterholm told Fox News.
Watch the interview here:
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