Posted on 03/21/2022 8:09:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Chief White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he doesn’t believe the United States will see another surge of the CCP virus due to the spread of a subvariant of Omicron.
The subvariant, known as BA.2, has been blamed by some officials for an uptick in cases across Europe and the United Kingdom in recent days.
“Hopefully, we won’t see a surge. I don’t think we will. The easiest way to prevent that is to continue to get people vaccinated. And for those who have been vaccinated, to continue to get them boosted, so that’s really where we stand right now,” Fauci told ABC News in a televised interview, adding the United States will see an “uptick” in COVID-19 cases.
When asked about whether the United States should relax its COVID-19 measures, Fauci said he doesn’t believe so. However, he suggested that officials may have to implement COVID-19 rules and restrictions in the future.
“I don’t think so … not right now. I don’t see us going back into any more really very restrict[ive] kinds of restrictions. But you always have to have the flexibility,” said Fauci, who has headed the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984.
“So the bottom line is we likely will see an uptick in cases as we’ve seen in the European countries, particularly the UK, where … they have BA.2,” he added. “They have a relaxation of some restrictions such as indoor masking and there’s a waning of immunity.
Fauci’s remarks on Sunday come as he told a podcast last week that he’s considering leaving his position in the federal government.
“I certainly am because I’ve got to do it sometime,” Fauci, 81, said in an interview released March 18. “I can’t stay at this job forever, unless my staff is going to find me slumped over my desk one day. I’d rather not do that,” he added.
Fauci was appointed to the head of the federal health agency during the Reagan administration and he notably oversaw the United States’ response to the spread of AIDS/HIV in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Some Republican lawmakers, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), have said they would investigate Fauci if Republicans take control of the Senate or House during the upcoming 2022 midterms.
Earlier this month, in response to the potential GOP-led investigations, Fauci suggested he’s anticipating it but issued a dismissive remark.
“It’s Benghazi hearings all over again,” Fauci told the Washington Post on March 15 in reference to Republican promises to investigate or produce documents involving his agency’s alleged funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the pandemic.
“They’ll try to beat me up in public, and there’ll be nothing there,” Fauci also told the Post. “But it will distract me from doing my job, the way it’s doing right now.”
The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, reportedly emerged in Wuhan in late 2019.
And we probably won’t, because most of us now have had Covid🤓, Mr Obvious!
BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron had grown to be about 25% of the shrinking number of new cases, as of last Friday’s weekly summary from the CDC. It is expected to become the dominant strain, as it has elsewhere.
It should only be a small bump, or a dragged out tail on the new case curve. It’s growth in the USA is coming at a time of very widespread immunity in the population, and the end of the Cold & Flu season next month.
Good he can retire now
When is that socktucker, Fauci, gonna die?
When is that cukesocker, Fauci, gonna die?
One more time!
When is that cokesoaker, Fauci, gonna die?
“ “Hopefully, we won’t see a surge. I don’t think we will. The easiest way to prevent that is to continue to get people vaccinated. And for those who have been vaccinated, to continue to get them boosted, so that’s really where we stand right now,” Fauci told ABC News in a televised interview, adding the United States will see an “uptick” in COVID-19 cases.
Still pushing the lie that vaccinations prevent spread or contraction.
Isn’t this like a prediction from Dick Morris or Bill Kristol? Expect the exact opposite to happen now.
Go AWAY, you narcissistic, crooked little gnome.
There you are, my cute little communist gnome.
We’ve been missing you. Figured maybe pedoJoe and the gang might have knocked ya off or put you in the witness protection program. It’s best you stay right where you are making you easy to find when the time comes....and it WILL come, you lying murdering sack of shite.
Translation: Cold and flu season is almost over.
“But I know someone who died” [/sarc]
I guess thats why he isn't on Faux news every night
Not until he gets the Fauxi beagle treatment.
CNY positivity rate three times higher than state average, leaders not concerned
BTW, note the continuing mad-on for the unvaxxed and/or unmuzzled.
BTW, note that nobody in Albany, our public health departments, the enemedia, or Big Med seem to be concerned whether or not any cases in the hospital are from nosocomial spread of CoupFlu by vaxxed superspreaderemployees.
Go figure.
Just shut up, you contemptible beast.
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