Covid, Fauci: I hear Biden every day, priority to vaccinations

Anthony Fauci

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January 17, 2021 "In the United States we are in a moment of extreme division, as the assault on the Capitol demonstrates. But President Biden will not let politics interfere with science, medical and scientific data will be followed" in the fight against pandemic.

The elected president "said it in public but also in private to our team".

Anthony Fauci, immunologist director of the National institute of allergy and infactious disease of the United States and member of the White House anti-coronavirus task force, said at 'Che tempo che fa' on Rai3.

Fauci, who was confirmed by Biden in the task force after a stormy relationship with Donald Trump, explained that the goal of the new US president, with whom "we talk every day", will be "to speed up vaccinations", also creating special centers and resorting to pharmacies for injections.

In addition, they will want to "improve collaboration between federal government and states" and act with "transparency".

in the US started "slowly, but now we are accelerating, and we have reached 500 thousand doses per day" explained Fauci.

In the first 100 days of his mandate Biden wants to reach 100 million doses administered "." Vaccines in general are among the safest interventions that can be carried out in medicine ", underlining that the allergic and anaphylactic reactions found so far in the anti Covid vaccines have been "very rare". 

But the Italian-born immunologist says he is "very worried" about the refusal of the anti-Covid vaccine by some health professionals. "We need a real information campaign among the people to convince everyone to consider the reasons for vaccinating or not. "And he warns:" If medical personnel refuse to get vaccinated, everyone may feel they have the right to say 'I'm not taking' the drug. "

is under observation:" We are closely monitoring the impact on vaccine protection.

Mutations are something to be monitored very carefully, the problem must be taken seriously, "said Fauci.

" We know that with the vaccine you do not get sick or get seriously ill.

We do not know anything else at the moment, we hope to have more information later - he said - it is important for this reason that even the vaccinated wear masks. " 

Waiting for the January 20,

, the security measures to protect Anthony Fauci and his wife "were doubled" after the assault on the Capitol. "It is a shame" that we need to protect scientists and senior officials, he later stressed.