But he doesn't expect more lockdowns.
The most vulnerable are those who are still unvaccinated, said Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Biden's chief medical advisor on COVID-19. And the fact that there are so many people in the country who aren't vaccinated is prolonging the pandemic.
“From the standpoint of illness, hospitalization, suffering, and death, the unvaccinated are much more vulnerable because the vaccinated are protected from severe illness for the most part,” he explained. “But when you look at the country as a whole in getting us back to normal, the unvaccinated by not being vaccinated are allowing the propagation and the spread of the outbreak, which ultimately impacts everyone.
With so many unvaccinated people getting infected, the virus is allowed to continue to spread. That impacts other people "from the standpoint of having to wear masks, from the standpoint of the safety of the , from the standpoint of being able to open up everything the way we were when we were normal,” Dr. Fauci said.in areas of the country with a substantial or high amount of coronavirus transmission. suggesting that fully vaccinated people who develop a rare breakthrough infection can spread the virus and, therefore, should wear a mask to prevent that from happening.
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