NEW: Anthony Fauci says the U.S. is heading out of the 'full-blown pandemic phase'
COVID-19 pandemic restrictions could end "soon," even as early as this year, NIAID director Anthony Fauci told theFauci explained that he does not believe "we are going to eradicate this virus," but said that it will instead reach an "equilibrium."
"I hope we are looking at a time when we have enough people vaccinated and enough people with protection from previous infection that the COVID restrictions will soon be a thing of the past," Fauci said. Fauci added that he hoped restrictions would end "soon," agreeing with a suggestion that they could largely end this year.Fauci also said that as the U.S. is "certainly heading out" of a particularly difficult phase of the pandemic driven largely by Omicron, local health departments will be the ones to make virus-related decisions instead of the Biden administration.
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