America’s top infectious diseases expert has revealed when the world could be free of COVID19
Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said fears around the virus could be over within the next year if vaccine developments continue to go well.
“There is an understandable situation where a young person could say, ‘You know, statistically the chances of my getting into trouble by getting infected are much smaller than an elderly person,’” he said. Speaking on Speaking on Podcast-19, Dr Fauci said young people in particular “threw caution to the wind, and you see films of people very densely congregated at bars and in areas where they’re not looking at social distancing or wearing masks”.
The median age of those infected in the state has plummeted from 65 years old at the beginning of March to 39 last week, suggesting younger, healthier people are transmitting the virus.“We saw a rapid rise in young people … being positive to COVID-19 around mid-June,” he told CBS News in June. “I think that that had a lot to do with probably socialising, young kids going to parties, maybe graduation parties at homes, because it’s been pretty locked down here for some time.
He told a media briefing in Geneva that there were no shortcuts out of this pandemic, and that we can’t rely on a vaccine.
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