Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a Sunday media blitz that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, while lamenting that booster uptake is low and urging more Americans to get the shot.
In separate interviews on CBS and NBC that aired Sunday, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden said that the United States has made substantial progress with respect to various outbreak-related metrics like cases and deaths but insisted that the outbreak isn’t over.
“I don’t like reading in the newspapers or getting my report from the COVID team: today we lost 400 people, today we lost 350 people,” Fauci said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “So it’s much, much better than it was, but it is not at a level low enough where we should feel we’re done with it completely, because we’re not.”…}