The highly mutated and contagious Omicron variant has driven the country to record the most cases in a day that any country has reported.
."We already know that there are reports from fire departments, from police departments in different cities that 10, 20, 25 and sometimes 30 percent of the people are ill. That's something that we need to be concerned about."
Fauci also added that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now considering including a negative test as part of guidance to shorten isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans.issued on December 27, isolation restrictions for people infected with COVID-19 have been shortened from 10 to five days if they are no longer feeling symptoms or running a fever. After that, they are asked to spend the following five days wearing a mask when around others.
"There has been some concern about why we don't ask people at that five-day period to get tested," Fauci said onis very well aware that there has been some pushback about that. Looking at it again, there may be an option that testing could be a part of that, and I think we're going to be hearing more in the next day or so from the CDC."
And while Fauci noted there is"accumulating evidence" that Omicron might lead to less severe illness, he cautioned that the data is still early."I'm still very concerned about the tens of millions of people who are not vaccinated at all because even though many of them are going to get asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic, a fair number of them are going to get severe disease," he said.
He urged Americans who have not yet gotten vaccinated and boosted to do so and to wear masks in indoor setting to protect themselves and blunt the current surge of Omicron cases.
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