Dr. Fauci: A new, more dangerous Covid variant could emerge this winter

CNBC ^ | 10/07/2022 | Annika Kim Constantino

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Dr. Anthony Fauci has a sober warning for Americans: Don’t be surprised if a new, more dangerous Covid variant emerges this upcoming winter.

“We should anticipate that we very well may get another variant that would emerge, that would elude the immune response that we’ve gotten from infection and/or from vaccination,” Fauci said at an event with the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism this week.

Statistically, pandemic trends like hospitalizations and deaths are currently down nationwide: The seven-day moving average of new Covid deaths in the U.S. is 323 as of Wednesday, for example. That’s far lower than the country’s 1,000 to 2,500 in February and March, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But Fauci urged Americans not to let their guard down because there’s always a “risk of uptick” in the winter months. “It looks like we’re going in the right direction,” he said, adding: “However, I think it would be a bit cavalier to all of a sudden say, ‘We’re completely through with [the pandemic].’”

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