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May 10, 2021 07:41 IST
The American public health expert also stressed on the importance of a lockdown to break the chain of transmission.
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The American public health expert also stressed on the importance of a lockdown to break the chain of transmission.
Getting people vaccinated is the only long-term solution to the current COVID-19 crisis in India, America s top public health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday as he called for scaling up manufacturing of coronavirus vaccines both domestically and globally to fight the deadly pandemic.
“The endgame of this all.is going to be to get people vaccinated.India is the largest vaccine-producing country in the world. They ve got to get their resources, not only from within, but also from without,” Mr. Fauci, who is the Chief Medical Adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, told
May 10, 2021
Pretty much every expert in the country and abroad now believes that India needs to implement a nationwide lockdown to minimise the damage of the brutal second wave of Covid-19 that’s gripped the country. But as per prime minister Narendra Modi, a lockdown should be the last resort.
On May 9, Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to US president Joe Biden, told ABC News that vaccines will only help India in the long run but the country needs to shut down given the current dire situation.
“I have advised them in the past that you really need to do that. You’ve got to shut down. I believe several of the Indian states have already done that, but you need to break the chain of transmission. And one of the ways to do that is to shut down,” the 80-year-old immunologist, who serves as the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said.
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COVID-19 death tolls are far higher than known.
A new study estimates that more than 900,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.
Health agencies and data trackers have recorded about 580,000 deaths in the US from the
coronavirus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country s leading infectious disease expert, said Sunday that he s not surprised new data shows the COVID-19 death toll has likely been severely undercounted.
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