Dr. Fauci walked back his remarks, clarifying that the U.S. is out of the 'acute' phase of the pandemic. 'The pandemic is not over,' he said. 'Don't anyone think that.'
Sorry, we’re actually not out of the pandemic yet, Dr. Anthony Fauci clarified on Wednesday. But we are out of the acute pandemic phase in the U.S.
— Dr. Anthony Fauci in a “PBS Newshour” interview But the infectious disease expert, who became a household name during the White House’s daily coronavirus briefings in 2020, also said that the query “How close are we to the end of this pandemic?” is really an “unanswerable question.” He walked back his remarks on NPR’s “1A” podcast on Wednesday, however, noting that he could see how his remarks could be misinterpreted.
“There are many people, people who I know myself, friends and others, who get infected, who do an antigen test, don’t get many symptoms, but don’t report it to anyone,” he said. “So, the fact is, there are infections that are not getting centrally reported.” “So I do believe that there’s an undercount. We should do better than that,” he continued. “We should probably be able to track them much better.”
Indeed, the White House announced Tuesday — the same day that Vice President Kamala Harris revealed she had tested positive for COVID — that Paxlovid will now be distributed directly to pharmacies, and it was stepping up the distribution of the antiviral drug in state-run clinics and other existing distribution channels.
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