Dr. Anthony Fauci recently spoke with “Today Live” about the new COVID-19 strain, saying its arrival was inevitable for the United States.
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Fauci said on the NBC News morning show that the mutated COVID-19 strain, which has recently discovered in Colorado and Southern California, was inevitably going to arrive in the United States. But there’s good news, too.
- “It was inevitable that it would be here.
- “You’ll be hearing reports from other states and more cases in the state,” he sadded.
- “Obviously, we don’t want to see a virus that has a greater capability of spreading,” he said. “The good news is that it does not appear to be (…) making people more sick and leading to more death. … The other thing that is important and a favorable thing, it does not seem to evade the protection that’s afforded by vaccines that are currently being used.”
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Fauci said vaccine distribution has been disappointing so far as nearly 3 million Americans have received the vaccine despite the government’s goal of hitting 20 million people by the end of 2020.
- “Hopefully, as you get into the first couple of weeks in January, the gaining of momentum will get us to the point where we want to be.”
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He made the argument that the federal government may want to take over distribution, too.
- “It’d be better to give more resources.”
- “You have to support the local groups, the states and the cities, to help them to get this task done, which is a very prodigious task,” he added.