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Director Pouch, the top infectious disease expert in the United States, predicted that New York's Broadway theater could reopen this fall.
However, the premise is that up to 85% of the U.S. population will be vaccinated by fall, resulting in a significant level of collective immunity.
This is Han Se-hyun.
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Pouch, director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Allergy, attended a conference hosted by the American Performing Artists Association, and said, "I think theaters and performance halls will be open this fall."
By the fall, 70-85% of the US population will be vaccinated, and population immunity will be able to rise to a significant level.
It is also interpreted to mean that large-scale vaccinations should be carried out before winter, when the virus becomes more active, by the fall of this year.
[Pouch/U.S. National Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research Center Director: By the fall, the number of confirmed cases will be greatly reduced and we hope to see meaningful numbers.
By that time, you will be able to think of returning to your previous routine to some extent.] If
vaccination goes smoothly, in the fall, in a well-ventilated indoor facility, large-scale activities can be possible as before, Pouch added.
Nevertheless, he emphasized that the so-called'new normal', which is obligated to wear a mask indoors for a certain period of time, will continue.
In addition, it has been suggested that in indoor spaces such as theaters and performance halls, like airlines, it may be necessary to submit a Corona 19 voice confirmation.
The number of corona confirmed cases in the U.S. has increased by 23,000 this year alone, exceeding 22 million so far.
The death toll was also counted at 370,000.