Anthony Fauci Warns on Covid-19 That ‘Things Are Going to Get Worse’ - The Wall Street Journal

would return to lockdowns but warned that “things are going to get worse” as a more contagious variant of the coronavirus has led to a surge of new cases.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” He added, “The solution to this is, get vaccinated.”.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a 64.1% increase in Covid cases over the week ended July 30 compared with the previous week, or an average of 66,606 cases a day.

The CDC reported a current seven-day average of 6,071 new admissions of hospital patients with Covid-19, a 44% increase over the average for the week of July 16-22.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky previously has said that more than 97% of Covid patients entering the hospital nationwide were unvaccinated.

Fauci and other top medical officials pleaded on several Sunday talk shows for Americans to follow the newest government guidelines—that everyone in areas with high Covid-19 infection rates wear a mask, regardless of vaccination status.