The daily infection rate has remained relatively stable in the United States, said Anthony Fauci.
Washington:
The United States does not need more comprehensive containment measures to contain its COVID-19 epidemic, despite the fact that the national daily infection rate shows no signs of declining, AFP said on Thursday. lead government expert Anthony Fauci.
“I don’t think we’re going to talk about going back to the lockdown,” he said when asked if places like California and Texas are seeing their workloads increase should reissue orders home support.
“I think we’re going to talk about trying to better control the regions of the country that seem to have an outbreak.”
The United States leads the world in terms of the number of confirmed infections and deaths – with a death toll close to 120,000.
But while the former New York and New Jersey epicenters have managed to control their epidemics, the virus is now increasing in 20 states – creating a plateau in the national case graph.
Fauci stressed that a localized approach would be necessary as the country is taking further steps to return to normal – including on the crucial question of when to reopen schools.
“The counties where there is certainly no case, there is no problem with the opening of schools,” he said.
“There are other parts where there is a modest amount of infection (where) you can delay the opening of schools.
“And there are other parts of the country where there is a minimum of infection, where you want to make a change to the process, namely: alternate days, morning versus afternoon, sit down people away from each other wearing masks. “
Fauci, who has led America’s response to every major epidemic since the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, said one thing that bothered him was the lack of compliance with the authorities’ recommendations regarding the wearing of masks.
“We have a country where even when the recommendations are to wear a mask, a recommendation that I was involved in formulating, there are certain groups that make the recommendations very strictly and adhere to them.
“And then … you see pictures of people in bars and congregations without that. Again, it’s a mixed bag. Some people do it well, others don’t.”
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