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reason the government is speeding up vaccination is because one of the most effective ways to reduce the spread of Corona is a vaccine. In the United States, it is predicted that if the majority of Americans are vaccinated, they will be able to control the coronavirus by the spring of next year.
Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung from Washington.
[Reporter]
Anti-vaccine protesters hold a rally in front of the Ohio state legislature.
After the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally approved the Pfizer vaccine, the number of workplaces requiring vaccination has increased, and Ohio has even proposed a law banning it.
Only 52% of the US population is now vaccinated.
As the delta mutation exploded, the number of infections per day increased to 150,000 and deaths to 1,000 per day.
White House chief medical adviser Fauci predicted that control of the coronavirus would be possible by the spring of next year only after the vast majority of unvaccinated people have been vaccinated.
[Pouch / Chief Medical Adviser of the White House: I hope that the absolute majority of the 90 million people who have not been vaccinated will be able to control Corona next spring.] The
best prevention measures in the future are to vaccinate as many people as possible. emphasized that
Although the United States had already declared liberation from the corona virus on July 4, the number of vaccinations increased slowly and delta mutations skyrocketed, so corona liberation became a distant topic again.