While hope for a Covid-19 vaccine is strong, the U.S. situation is still precarious
Testifying in front of a House subcommittee tasked with overseeing the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic, top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci on Friday was confident that there would be a Covid-19 vaccine by early next year. “I don’t think it’s dreaming ... I believe it’s a reality [and] will be shown to be reality,” he said.
But the picture isn't entirely rosy. California over the weekend became the first state to record more than 500,000 Covid-19 cases, while 42% of all the U.S. cases so far were recorded in July. Deborah Birx, who is on the White House's coronavirus task force, told CNN yesterday that the U.S. had entered a "new phase" of the pandemic, in which outbreaks of the virus were more widespread across the country and not as concentrated in large cities as during the spring months. “What we are seeing today is different from March and April — it is extraordinarily widespread,” she said. “It’s into the rural as equal urban areas. To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus.”
But the picture isn't entirely rosy. California over the weekend became the first state to record more than 500,000 Covid-19 cases, while 42% of all the U.S. cases so far were recorded in July. Deborah Birx, who is on the White House's coronavirus task force, told CNN yesterday that the U.S. had entered a "new phase" of the pandemic, in which outbreaks of the virus were more widespread across the country and not as concentrated in large cities as during the spring months. “What we are seeing today is different from March and April — it is extraordinarily widespread,” she said. “It’s into the rural as equal urban areas. To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus.”
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