{"id":1410205,"date":"2022-03-30T13:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410205"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:14:40","slug":"fauci-get-ready-america-possibility-for-new-covid-19-restrictions-on-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-get-ready-america-possibility-for-new-covid-19-restrictions-on-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci: Get Ready, America, Possibility For New COVID-19 Restrictions On Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ffauci-get-ready-america-possibility-for-new-covid-19-restrictions-on-horizon%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=1410205&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2020\/09\/fauci-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Even as many weary Americans are moving on with their lives, the top U.S. immunologist White House chief medical adviser is warning that COVID-19 restrictions could soon return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to use the word \u2018lockdowns.\u2019 That has a charged element to it. But, I believe that we must keep our eye on the pattern of what we\u2019re seeing with infections,\u201d he said in an interview on the BBC\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving said that, we need to be prepared for the possibility that we would have another variant that would come along,\u201d Fauci said. \u201cAnd then, if things change and we do get a variant that does give us an uptick in cases and hospitalization, we should be prepared and flexible enough to pivot toward going back \u2013 at least temporarily \u2013 to a more rigid type of restrictions, such as requiring masks indoor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, things seem to be ebbing, at least of late. The U.S. reported 42,967 new cases and 985 deaths on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/index.html#\/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6\">according<\/a> to data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. But in January, there were more than 60,000 reported deaths from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci warned that there are currently the \u201csame conditions\u201d in the U.S. that are causing a surge in cases in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the greater transmissibility of the BA.2, it\u2019s the relaxation of restriction, particularly in the context of indoor masking in congregate settings, and also the fact that immunity, due to both vaccination as well as people who have been previously infected, tends to wane with SARS-CoV-2 \u2013 particularly with Omicron,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The more contagious subvariant of Omicron, BA.2, is raging across the U.S., now accounting for more than a third of all COVID-19 infections, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/03\/21\/covid-strain-ba2-omicron-subvariant\/\">data<\/a> published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week.\u00a0Several studies have found that BA.2 is even more transmissible than an earlier variant, BA.1, but still most scientists are not concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn early 2022, BA.2 was growing more common in a number of countries,\u201d The New York Times recently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/stealth-omicron-stealthy-no-more-151845760.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cBy February, it had become dominant worldwide, driving down the once-dominant BA.1. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that BA.2 jumped to 11% in early March from 1% in early February. It could soon become dominant in this country as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that does not mean that Americans are riding a new BA.2 wave that is infecting a lot of new people. As BA.2 became more common in the United States, the total number of new cases fell by about 95%. Worldwide, the number of daily new cases had fallen to half of what they were at their peak in late January,\u201d The Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, more than half of Americans (52%) say they have contracted the virus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/reports\/monmouthpoll_us_032822\/\">according<\/a> to a new Monmouth University poll. That number has jumped from just seven weeks ago, when 40% said they\u2019d had it. The numbers, though, are not concrete. \u201c[A] little more than 4 in 10 say they\u2019ve tested positive for or been diagnosed with covid-19, while 10 percent say they haven\u2019t been diagnosed but know they\u2019ve had the virus,\u201d The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/a-milestone-majority-say-they-ve-had-covid-even-more-in-gop\/ar-AAVAkm0\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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