The former chief medical advisor predicted that there was 'not going to be the tsunami of cases that we've seen' before as two new variants emerge.
"But I doubt very seriously...whether you're going to see the hospital and death surge that we've seen in the past, even if we get a surge of infections."
Though Fauci cautioned that"you never say things with complete confidence with this virus," he explained the lack of alarm was"because there's enough fundamental community-level protection that, even though you'll find the vulnerable will fall by the wayside—they'll get infected, they'll get hospitalized and some will die—it's not going to be the tsunami of cases that we've seen.
Fauci, who announced he would step down from his government roles in December, declined a request for an interview when approached byIn the week to August 19, there were more than 15,000 hospitalizations due to COVID-19 infections across the U.S., the most recent CDC monitoring figures show—a rise of nearly 19 percent on the previous week.
Admissions have been steadily rising since July, but are far below the highest peaks of the pandemic and appear to be localized into hotspots. The highest number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in any week since the virus first emerged was over 150,000 in January 2022, and the highest weekly total this year was over 44,000 in the first week of January.
The World Health Organization has categorized the EG.5 variant as of low risk to public health, while the CDC has assessed the BA.2.86 strain to be more likely to infect people who have existing immunity to the virus.
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