Fauci said the US is 'out of the pandemic phase.' What does that mean?
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The worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic may be over in the United States, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who recently said we are "out of the pandemic phase."
The worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic may be over in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said this week. Some experts urged caution, however, and said the pandemic is still a threat in the long-term.
“We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase,” Fauci told PBS NewsHour Tuesday. “Namely, we don't have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now.”
He continued, “So, if you're saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are.”
Some public health experts stressed Fauci is not saying the pandemic is over, which he also later clarified to CBS News, but rather that the virus is no longer having the same impact in the U.S. as it was a few months ago.
