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  • Fauci: Omicron "rages in the world", travel increases the risks

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December 20, 2021 "Covid does not represent the same threat posed in 2020": so the White House spokesperson, Jen Psaki, who urged "not to alarm, while acknowledging the boom in infections in the United States". The Biden administration, even aware of a situation "that is making the situation in hospitals increasingly difficult, especially the spread of the Omicron variant", does not intend to bring the country into lockdown under the Christmas holidays. The note, after a day in which the alarms on the numbers of infections and the need to take measures had followed one another.



Soon the announcement of new measures


However, President Biden "will announce further steps in the fight against Covid-19" during his scheduled remarks on the Omicron variant. "But - continues the White House spokesperson - he will not necessarily speak of further restrictions in the face of the increase in cases". "This is not a speech about the closure of the country - said Jen Psaki - but it is a speech that is direct and clear with the American people about the advantages of being vaccinated".



The President will call on


Biden

to get vaccinated

"will issue a stern warning and make it clear that unvaccinated individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths." 



Fauci: "It will be a winter with records of cases and deaths"


Anthony Fauci, in some interviews released over the weekend, did not hide how the latest data on the spread of Covid and the Omicron variant in the United States are red alert.

And the holiday season at the end of the year - with millions of Americans traveling and the expected wave of tourists after the reopening of the borders - risks, according to the virologist, to trigger a worrying scenario.   



USA, 1,300 victims in 24 hours


New cases in the USA travel at an average of 130,000 infections a day, with about 1,300 victims every 24 hours.

And fear is also spreading in Congress where today at least two senators and a deputy declared that they tested positive for Covid despite being vaccinated.