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Fauci urged to assess individual risk profiles before going out in public
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said he is not "overly concerned right now" regarding the new surging number of cases in the Northeast, primarily due to the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
Jha, the dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, acknowledged the growing number of new COVID-19 cases in parts of the country, which saw a jump over the past seven days.
The data doesn't point toward another full-on coronavirus outbreak because hospitalizations are "the lowest they have been in the entire pandemic," Jha told NBC.
The US is presently averaging just over 1,300 hospitalizations per day, the lowest since the pandemic era, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows.
Although Jha urged people to remain "careful" and keep a watch on how the BA.2 subvariant evolves as it spreads, he doesn't think "this is a moment where we have to be excessively concerned."
In a survey of blood donor samples conducted in December and updated in February, CDC said an around 95% of Americans ages 16 and older have developed identifiable COVID antibodies generated from double vaccinations.
″[COVID-19] is not going to be eradicated, and it's not going to be eliminated," White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC on Sunday, cautioning that people are going to "have to live with some degree of [the] virus in the community.″
Fauci urged people to assess their individual risk profiles before going out in public and get vaccinated and, if eligible, boosted.
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