White House chief anti-epidemic expert Anthony Fauci recently warned the American people that we should not be surprised if a new and more dangerous variant emerges this winter. “We should expect that we are likely to see another variant emerge that evades us from infection or vaccination,” Fauci said at an event this week at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. The immune response to the vaccine.”
The US financial media CNBC reported that from a statistical point of view, the current trend data of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the United States are declining. For example, as of October 5, the 7-day moving average of the number of newly infected deaths in the United States is 323 people.
Those figures are well below the 1,000 to 2,500 deaths a day in the United States in February and March, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fauci, however, urged Americans not to let up, as winter always presents “the risk of the virus rising.” It looks like we’re heading in the right direction, but I think it would be a bit too flippant to suddenly say we’re completely out of it.”
Fauci pointed out that the summer of 2021, when the U.S. saw a similar decline in outbreaks, followed by the Omicron variant that led to a record-breaking surge in cases last winter. Since then, several Omicron subtype variants have spread rapidly and become the dominant strains in the United States.
Fauci added that “we shouldn’t be surprised” if another new, more transmissible variant emerges this winter.
US President Joe Biden said in an interview with the media in mid-September that the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States is over, but this statement caused a backlash from public health experts and the mainstream media.