Anthony Fauci, the White House’s top epidemiologist, said the United States is no longer in a “pandemic phase.”

The White House’s top epidemiologist, Anthony Fauci, offered a optimistic analysis of the health situation in a television interview: he said that the United States emerged in the pandemic stage of COVID-19with low rates of infection, death and hospitalization.

“Certainly now we are in this country outside the pandemic stage, that is, we don’t have 900,000 new infections every day or tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitals and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level nowFauci said in a CBS television interview.

Despite the consideration that the country is not in the pandemic stage, Fauci pointed out that he did not believe the coronavirus would be eradicated.

“What we can keep is a very low level and vaccinating people over and over again, I don’t know how often, maybe every year, or more time to keep the level low, but now we’re not at the stage of a pandemic. in the country, “he said.

However, he pointed out that if the situation in the world is observed “there is no doubt that the pandemic continues”because, he explains, there are still very rapid and widespread infections in different parts of the world.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), new daily cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. in April did not exceed 60,000, after the rebound experienced in January by the Omicron variant in which the million new infections per day are passed.

Similarly, deaths from the disease show a downward trend with less than 500 dailyand even with numbers less than 100 in a few days.

In the interview, Fauci was also asked about the effectiveness of the treatment chosen by the US government when treating COVID-19, Paxlovid antiviral pillsfrom the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

The epidemiologist stressed that “this is a effective therapy “ and stressed that clinical trials have shown that 90% of volunteers given this treatment are protected against disease progression and hospitalized.

Fauci said the government has many available doses and there are places where you can get tested for COVID, and if you test positive, take Paxlovid right away.

Source: EFE