'We were anticipating that there would be challenges, but there are a lot of conflating issues that made this a very, very complicated year,' Fauci reflected on 2021.
American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
If you get "a combination of enough people vaccinated and boosted together with people who are infected and recover and have a degree of immunity — hopefully they'll wind up getting vaccinated too — and you have a virus, a variant, that has a lesser degree of pathogenicity" and it isn't disrupting society, then and only then can it be considered endemic, Fauci said.
"I think virtually everyone thought, when we had a vaccine as effective and safe as the vaccines we have now, that we would get enough people vaccinated that we would ... have a diminution of infection not only in the United States, but ... also essentially get our arms around, as it were, the pandemic globally," he said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant case, which was detected in California, during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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