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Fauci: Vaccines And Boosters Remain Government Covid-19 Strategy

US

White House Infectious Diseases Expert Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky have given a press briefing on the state of the government's Covid-19 response.


  • Fauci: ‘Pan-coronavirus’ vaccine ‘not around the corner’. There are considerable clinical trials to be held before it can become a reality.
  • The first line of defence remains the government’s strategy of vaccines and boosters.
  • There are plans to make greater levels of Covid-19 testing available under Medicare
  • N95 mask distribution program: masks are being distributed via community health centres and local pharmacies. No plans for direct government mailout of N95 masks.
  • The United States is not yet at the point of ‘living with Covid’. Sufficient control of the disease (not elimination) is the goal. Hospitalisations must fall within an ‘acceptable’ level that we have achieved with other respiratory disease like flu. ‘We believe we can get there with tests, masks, vaccines, antivirals.'

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