...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...says the US is no longer in the "pandemic phase" of COVID-19 — more than two years after the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
first began wreaking havoc on the nation. PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff pressed the White House chief medical adviser Tuesday on the state of the virus in the US, particularly as many Americans prepare to receive their second booster shots and mask requirements are lifted across the country.
"Here we are. It’s the end of April. It’s the spring of 2022. How close are we to the end of the pandemic?" Woodruff asked.
"We are certainly, right now, in this country out of the pandemic phase," Fauci replied. "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."
"So, if you’re saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are," he added.
But the health adviser warned: "We’re not going to eradicate this virus."