Prominent American scientist Anthony Fauci, White House adviser on the health crisis, warned on Sunday that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was “rampant” across the world, worrying about the number of Americans still not vaccinated.
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“This virus is extraordinary,” Mr. Fauci said on CNN, referring to its speed of spread. “He’s going to get the upper hand”, and “we’re going to have tough weeks or months as we get closer to winter”.
“It’s spreading really quickly, literally around the world and without a doubt in our own country,” he added on ABC, worrying that nearly 50 million eligible Americans remained unvaccinated. .
“When you have that level of vulnerability and you have a virus like Omicron that spreads so quickly, it’s very likely that in some parts of the country we’re going to see significant pressure on the hospital system as well as on the hospital worker. health that is running out because of it all, ”he said, urging Americans to get vaccinated and get their booster.
The virus “is raging across the world, really,” he insisted on NBC.
The Omicron variant is spreading at full speed around the world, causing restrictions in many countries such as containment in the Netherlands.
The pandemic has killed more than 5 million people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease in late December 2019. The United States is the most bereaved country with more than 800,000 deaths.