Fauci says U.S. may face "dark winter," but it can be avoided if Americans are vaccinated to a "very high degree" - "The Takeout"
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The nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says the U.S. could be facing another "dark winter," though this can be avoided if Americans get vaccinated to a "very high degree" in the coming months.
On "The Takeout" podcast this week, chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett recalled that in late 2020, President Biden had warned that the U.S. was headed for a "very dark winter" because of the rising COVID cases. He asked Fauci if the prevalence of the Delta variant and the 70 million Americans still refusing a vaccine could result in the same forecast this winter.
"You know, if we don't get people vaccinated who need to be vaccinated, and we get that conflating with an influenza season, we could have a dark, bad winter," Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Biden, said.
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