Article 668HC White House health officials: up-to-date vaccines key to move on from Covid

White House health officials: up-to-date vaccines key to move on from Covid

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Edward Helmore in New York
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Fauci and Jha comments come amid campaign to encourage public to get the new coronavirus boosters as well as flu shots

White House public health officials offered cautious optimism that Americans could begin to move on from coronavirus, but cautioned that keeping immunity vaccination up-to-date and combating scientific disinformation remained key for the country to successfully emerge from the three-year Covid-19 pandemic.

If you look at where we were a year ago at this time, when [coronavirus variant] Omicron started to surge, we were having 800,000 to 900,000 infections and 3,000 to 4,000 deaths [a day]. Today, we had less than 300 deaths. Yesterday, we had 350 deaths, and...anywhere from 27,000 to 45,000 cases" Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the US president, said.

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