As the 'extraordinarily contagious' omicron variant surges, Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that COVID-19 cases will likely continue to climb. 'Every day it goes up and up. The last weekly average was about 150,000 and it likely will go much higher.'
Jonathan Karl interviews Dr. Anthony Fauci on"This Week."surges across the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that COVID-19 cases will likely continue to climb.
But the omicron surge created a massive rush for tests as Americans prepared to see relatives for the holidays, and they instead faced empty pharmacy shelves and massive test lines.People wait for at-home Covid-19 test kits in a long line that snakes multiple times around the Shaw Library in Washington, D.C., Dec. 22, 2021.
"But the situation where you have such a high demand, a conflation of events, omicron stirring people to get appropriately concerned and wanting to get tested as well as the fact of the run on tests during the holiday season -- we've obviously got to do better," he continued."I think things will improve greatly as we get into January. But that doesn't help us today and tomorrow.
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