{"id":1197700,"date":"2022-01-07T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197700"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:49:50","slug":"anthony-fauci-omicron-variant-less-severe-but-dont-pull-back-from-wearing-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anthony-fauci-omicron-variant-less-severe-but-dont-pull-back-from-wearing-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Fauci: Omicron Variant &#039;Less Severe&#039; but &#039;Don&#039;t Pull Back&#039; from Wearing Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanthony-fauci-omicron-variant-less-severe-but-dont-pull-back-from-wearing-masks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197700&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1231786086-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted again this week that data suggests the omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus is \u201cless severe\u201d than the delta variant, although he said that is not reason enough to pull back from masking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple sources of now preliminary data indicate a decreased severity with Omicron,\u201d Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/01\/05\/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-77\/\">said<\/a> during a White House COVID-19 Response Team press briefing this week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we really do need more definitive assessment of severity with longer-term follow-up here and in different countries,\u201d he said, adding a \u201cbig caveat\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We should not be complacent since the increased transmissibility of varion [sic] may be \u2014 of Omicron might be overridden by the sheer volume of the number of cases that may be of reduced severity but could still stress our hospital system, because a certain proportion of a large volume of cases, no matter what, are going to be severe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo, don\u2019t take this as a signal that we can pull back from the recommendations that you just heard from Dr. Walensky about the need for vaccination, for boostering, for wearing masks, and all the other CDC recommendations,\u201d he said, once again suggesting that masking is here to stay for at least the immediate future.<\/p>\n<p>During the press briefing, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/01\/05\/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-77\/\">listed<\/a> the four steps the federal health agency is asking Americans to take, one of which is wearing a mask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re asking everyone to follow these four steps: Get vaccinated and get boosted if you are eligible, wear a mask, stay home when you\u2019re sick, and take a test if you have symptoms or are looking for greater, extra reassurance before you gather with others,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The call comes as localities \u2014 most recently Kansas City \u2014 opt to force children to begin wearing masks in schools once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted again this week that data suggests the omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus is \u201cless severe\u201d than the delta variant, although he said that is not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}