US Chief Epidemiologist Warns: "January Could Be a Really Dark Time" | Coronavirus

The chief epidemiologist, principally responsible for the fight against the coronavirus in the United States, the well-known Anthony Fauci, warns with all the harshness of the world about what may be to come in his country. “January could be a really dark time,” he has described. Why has the person responsible for the pandemic in the US painted the closest panorama this way? Mainly because he has seen that the epidemiological impact that the Thanksgiving celebrations have had last week has turned out to be much more disturbing than expected. Right now the situation in the North American nation is bad. It was not buoyant lately, and this recent celebration has further spoiled the picture. But it could be even worse soon. This is how Fauci explained: “We expected that the effect of the Thanksgiving rebound will probably be another week or week and a half from now, because it is usually two and a half weeks from the time of the event.” What’s more, “the problem”, he lamented, is now that this increase “will last until the beginning of Christmas.” Of course, the reasons for this development of the disease are in the displacement. The epidemiologist Fauci has put the focus on social gatherings, which the Christmas season encourages and which will further amplify the effect of cold weather in much of the United States, which is the cause of the indoor gatherings that, you know, are the most dangerous for the spread of the virus. In this way, the United States faces “a wave of infections upon a wave. The middle of January can be a really dark time for us. We will start to see that things get really bad in mid-January.Of course, he also wanted to underline that the authorities of his country “are ready” to deal with it. In this sense, he reminded Americans that they can mitigate the spread of the Covid-19 disease, before urging citizens to take the same preventive measures they take when reunited with strangers as they do with their families: wear a mask, wash their hands, practice social distancing, and meet outdoors or in well-ventilated places. In recent weeks, the worst numbers of cases of the entire pandemic have been counted this Monday, more than 175,000 positives and 1,114 deaths, bringing the total to 14.75 million infections. The fatalities from COVID-19 on US soil rise to 282,312. Waiting for the first vaccines These poor prospects come as the United States is still waiting for the arrival of the first vaccines, which have to be approved first by its federal agencies. In this sense, it should be remembered that the chief advisor of the so-called Operation ‘Warp Speed’ -speed of light-, designed to accelerate medical solutions to the pandemic, estimates that normality – the usual, the good – can start coming back between April or May, when a large part of the population has already been vaccinated: “There is light at the end of the tunnel.” The Food and Drug Administration meets this Thursday to evaluate the possible approval of the Pfizer and Biontech vaccine , the first to take such a step in the United States. A week later, on the 17th, it is the turn to study the solution proposed by the Moderna company. That is the last step before the distribution of the vaccines: as soon as they receive the OK, they are ready to be sent and used.”I would say that 36 euros of approval can already take place the first approval” says Moncef Slaoui, responsible for this operation ‘Warp speed’. Fauci will remain with Biden Anthony Fauci will continue to be responsible for the fight against the coronavirus when Joe Biden takes office President as of January 20. It should be noted that Donald Trump has always been especially critical of Fauci’s work. However, precisely the attitude of the still president in reference to the coronavirus crisis has been one of the causes that have prevented him from repeating his term in the White House, Biden has already announced the members of the team responsible for health management in his future Government, in which Dr. Anthony Fauci will continue as the main medical adviser to the US Presidency in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Biden’s transition team has explained in a statement that “this deeply qualified and diverse team will be ready from the first day to contain the COVID pandemic, to ensure the free, safe and equitable distribution of vaccines, to ensure that every American has access to affordable, quality health treatment, and to protect against the full range of health threats they face our nation.