The head of the CDC anticipates COVID-19 will become a seasonal virus.
"I do anticipate that this is probably going to be a seasonal virus," she told NBC News on Monday.
Walensky also told the network that Americans should anticipate they will need to wear face masks again and hope that they are not always necessary. "We may want to be more vigilant during some seasons," she noted. "Maybe during respiratory season, if things ramped up, we would want to put on our masks again to protect both from flu and from COVID and from all other respiratory diseases.
Image of an iHealth at home Covid-19 rapid antigen test supplied for free by the U.S. Postal Service. Photographer: Angus Mordant/ Bloomberg/Getty Images from Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. reported 67,516 new coronavirus cases and 1,686 new deaths. show the variant still makes up 99.9% of new cases.
Walensky said it remained unclear whether people will need additional COVID-19 booster shots over the next year. In a reversal of the U.N. agency's previous stance, an expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday that it "strongly supports urgent and broad access" to booster doses.
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