23 July 2021, 10:07 pm
The White House COVID-19 Response Team has confirmed that 40% of this week s cases came from just three states.
These three states are Florida, Texas, and Missouri. This week, just three states - Florida, Texas, and Missouri; three states with lower vaccination rates - accounted for 40 percent of all cases nationwide, White House COVID-19 Response Coordination Jeff Zients said during a press briefing.
White House COVID-19 Response Team Gives Stats and Figures
White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeff Zients said that for the second week in a row, one in five of all cases comes from Florida. Florida has contributed the highest number of COVID-19 cases this week.
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Operations at the White House have already shifted one day into Joe Biden s presidency, including placing a renewed emphasis on science.
Dr. Anthony Fauci resumed his place at White House briefings on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on Thursday and said that he has already noted stark differences between Donald Trump s administration, which downplayed the severity of the deadly virus, and Biden s.
While answering reporters questions during the briefing, Fauci said that working under Biden s administration is liberating. One of the new things in this administration is, if you don t know the answer, don t guess. Just say you don t know the answer, he said, adding later that an importance will be placed on making everything we do be based on science and evidence.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, predicted on Thursday that the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. would continue to get worse in the weeks to come.
31 December 2020, 4:19 am EST By
Americans could have their normal lives by the fall of 2021. American leading infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci made this remark in an online discussion with California Governor Gavin Newsom provided that enough number of people decide to receive the jab and if COVID vaccine administration picks up.
Fauci said that assuming that if the vaccination campaign progresses as it should by July, there will be enough herd immunity by early fall of 2021 to return to a situation with strong semblance of normality, opening up restaurants, theaters, schools, and sports events.
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If COVID Vaccine Delivery Accelerates, Herd Immunity Possible by July, Life to Normalize by Spring 2021 – Fauci says
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that he did not deliberately move the goalposts for when the country would reach herd immunity, saying he was only offering guestimates before.
Fauci told New York Times that when polls said only about half of Americans would get the vaccine, he lowered the numbers to only 70 to 75 percent to reach herd immunity.
However, when more people started saying they will get vaccinated, Fauci also bumped up the herd immunity estimate to about 80 percent. We have to realize that we have to be humble and realize what we don t know. These are pure estimates, Fauci said.