{"id":3808,"date":"2022-04-26T23:20:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T23:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/watch-u-s-out-of-the-pandemic-phase-fauci-says\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T23:20:59","slug":"watch-u-s-out-of-the-pandemic-phase-fauci-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: U.S. &#8216;out of the pandemic phase, Fauci says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQaqEDeyNM8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. is \u201cout of the pandemic phase,\u201d said Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top public health official who has helped lead the national response to COVID-19 for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNamely, we don\u2019t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths,\u201d he said April 26 in an interview with the PBS NewsHour\u2019s anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to eradicate this virus,\u201d Fauci said, adding that in order to keep levels low, the U.S. would have to intermittently vaccinate people, at a frequency yet to be determined \u2014 possibly every year. But, for now, the U.S. is not in a pandemic phase, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA pandemic means a widespread, throughout-the-world infection that spreads rapidly among people. So if you look at the global situation, there\u2019s no doubt this pandemic is still ongoing,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the same day, Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19, and Fauci\u2019s comments come at a time when the U.S. coronavirus death toll is expected to soon surpass 1 million. And a new CDC report revealed that three out of four children, and nearly 60 percent of U.S. adults, have already contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<p>BA.2, a more transmissible variation of omicron, is now the dominant strain and driving a slow rise in cases across the country. But Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House\u2019s new COVID-19 response coordinator, said at an April 26 briefing that hospitalizations are at the lowest level of the pandemic as deaths continue to fall, despite BA.2\u2019s presence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the World Health Organization announced that the global death count fell to its lowest level since March 2020, but cautioned that several countries have slowed down their testing efforts, which makes it difficult to track the virus\u2019 impact and next steps. China and several countries in Europe have also seen recent spikes in infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis virus won\u2019t go away just because countries stopped looking for it. It\u2019s still spreading, it\u2019s still changing, and it\u2019s still killing,\u201d said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO\u2019s director-general. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough deaths are declining, we still don\u2019t understand the long-term consequences of infection in those who survive. When it comes to a deadly virus, ignorance is not bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a><br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is \u201cout of the pandemic phase,\u201d said Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top public health official who has helped lead the national response to COVID-19 for more than two years. \u201cNamely, we don\u2019t have 900,000 new infections a day&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[168,177,7672,7673,7674,7675,5130,7676,539,173,7677,5027,7678,7679,2417],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-clinical-treatment","tag-covid-deaths","tag-covid-masking","tag-covid-medicine","tag-covid-pill","tag-covid-testing","tag-covid-19","tag-dr-fauci","tag-end-of-pandemic","tag-omicron","tag-pandemic-end","tag-paxolid","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}