China News Service, February 17. According to foreign media reports, the new crown epidemic in the United States continues to spread, and about 2,200 people still die every day due to the new crown disease, and most of them have not been vaccinated.
On February 16, Fauci, the chief infectious disease expert in the United States, expressed his opinion that although the United States is still trapped in the new crown epidemic, it is time to gradually move towards a return to normalcy.
Data map: American infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci.
Fauci made the above comments in an interview with Reuters.
He said that since the outbreak of the epidemic, states in the United States have faced difficult choices as they strike a balance between protecting people from the virus and the fatigue caused by the epidemic.
"There is no absolute perfect solution to all this."
U.S. health officials announced on the 16th that they are preparing to draw up new epidemic prevention guidelines in response to the slowdown in the epidemic caused by the Omicron variant.
Previously, many states, including New Jersey, New York, and California, announced that they would cancel the measures to wear masks in schools and public places.
Fauci added: "You don't need to be reckless and throw everything out of the way, but you have to start preparing to move toward (returning to normalcy)."
According to the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States has so far exceeded 78.16 million, and the number of deaths has reached 928,000.