banned air travel from the south african countries. do you think the u.s. should do that? . obviously as soon as we find out more information we will do it as quickly as we can. you dent want to say you are going to do it until you have scientific reason to do it. so if the u.s. starts to see yes, i know we are awaiting more information. we need to understand how this works. if the u.s. starts to see these cases of this particular strain, what immediate measures have to be taken? there is always what the uk has done, block travel from south africa and related countries.
fauci told cnn earlier today. first of all, you want to find out if, in fact, it does evade the vaccines that we re doing. i mean, there s always the possibility of doing what the uk has done, namely, block travel from south africa and related countries. we don t know know that. that s something you think about and get prepared to do. you re prepared to do everything you need to do to protect the american public. but you want to make sure there s a basis for doing that, and there s what we re doing right now. dr. fauci also has emphasized the importance of getting boosters, which are now available to everyone over the age of 18, 18 and older. it s interesting to note there was another variant, the beta variant, first spotted in south africa towards the end of last year. there was a lot of worry about that one too, but it never sort of went on the world stage. it was in a smattering of countries. it never became like delta.