Dr. Anthony Fauci said the return of many COVID-19 restrictions is 'not an overreaction' to the 'unprecedented' rapid spread of the omicron variant.
As professional sports leagues postpone games and cities reinstate mask mandates amid the surge of the omicron COVID-19 variant, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday the response was"by no means an overreaction" to the rise in cases and hospitalizations across the country.
"It very well may be less severe, we’re hoping that’s the case, and we’re hoping as this evolves here in the United States, that that will be our experience. But even if it is, the quantity of infections given the extraordinary efficiency of spread, might actually obviate that diminution in severity to the point where you still get a lot of significant disease, so we cannot take this lightly at all.
Getting vaccinated and boosted also protects young children who are not currently eligible for vaccination."The best way to protect children who are not yet at the age that they can be vaccinated is to surround them with people who are vaccinated," he said."You protect yourself and you protect your unvaccinated children by making sure they are in an environment with vaccinated people.
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