Dr. Anthony Fauci said that as the season gets colder and kids spend more time in classrooms, a pandemic surge experienced in the south could be next for the northeast.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ director told CNN on Monday that it was today within our control to prevent another surge from happening. He said we could do it by imposing mitigation measures like increasing vaccination rates and mandating masks in schools and indoors.
Fauci Believes That People In Northeast Could Prevent Another Coronavirus Surge
Vaccine mandates have been a topic of debate throughout the country but as data radiant spreads preying upon hundreds of thousands of people, more leaders have been convinced to adopt such measures.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told ABC News that growing evidence suggests vaccine mandates proving much useful in getting people vaccinated. As more people take their vaccine doses, the community becomes safer.
The federal government has imposed vaccine mandates for its employees and president Joe Biden continues to emphasize the importance of vaccines as he received his booster shot on Monday. He said that this pandemic is of the unvaccinated.
The former food and drug administration commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, predicted that the wave of the delta variant would come to an end by Thanksgiving and the first of COVID-19 will decrease. But Fauci believes that this depends on how many people get vaccinated.
According to the data from CDC, 55.4% of the US population is fully vaccinated at present. Fauci still calls it far below the required majority and said that vaccination is the only way to control the spread of the pandemic.
A number of places are still impacted by the virus. Around 25 advanced life support ambulances have been received by North Carolina as it continues to experience a high number of calls in the pandemic. According to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, each ambulance carries a two-person crew.
Will Ray, the director of North Carolina emergency management said that the screws and ambulances will provide required relief to our busy systems. He said that their medical resources are limited, and they are grateful for this assistance.
Pfizer-BioNTech announced Tuesday that they do not seek emergency use authorization. This is the first vaccine submission for children.
According to a CNN report, a ban on mask mandates in Arizona was scheduled on Wednesday to become a law. A judge of Maricopa County ruled it unconstitutional. Governor Dough Ducey called it ‘judicial overreach.
Ordered by a federal judge, the largest Tennessee school district plans to impose mask mandates and they are prepared for protests. Bob Thomas, the superintendent of Knox County Schools said that students who are reluctant to wear masks will be allowed in schools but not in the regular classrooms. He said that Terrence can take their child home, but their absence will be counted as unexcused.
New York City’s public school employees were initially asked to get at least one COVID-19 vaccine but it was temporarily blocked by a judge.
It was then dissolved in court on Monday allowing schools of the city to impose vaccine mandates among their employees once again. The deadline to receive at least one vaccine against COVID-19 is extended to Friday, which means that those who do not get vaccinated will have to stop working.
According to the order, those who get their first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine must later submit proof that they got a second shot within 45 days. Danielle Filson, the spokeswoman of the city education department, told CNN that vaccination is the only tool to battle against COVID-19 and protect our staff and students.
