The pushback against "normal, easy-to-understand" COVID-19 public health measures like vaccination and mask-wearing is disturbing, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci, President Biden's chief medical advisor, said Monday that if we all pulled together, we would be much, much better off.
Fauci said in a virtual session of the World Economic Forum that it's very disturbing that there is a degree of pushback against regular, normal, easy-to- understand public health measures. There is reluctance to do public health measures.
He continued: "You make the virus have an advantage when you don't implement all of the public health measures."
Fauci said that the United States was among a few countries that had suffered the most from the swine flu. It's really, really unfortunate that 65 million cases and close to 900,000 deaths in our country have not been avoided.
The Omicron variant of the coronaviruses has a large number of changes in the part of the virus that causes human diseases. It can cause a milder illness than the Delta variant, but can still make people sick.
In the US, where the majority of new reported cases are caused by Omicron, 151,000 people were in hospital with COVID-19 as of Friday, more than twice the number recorded a month before.
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