Americans are getting infected with COVID-19 at 10 times the rate needed to end the pandemic--Fauci

Fauci warns COVID infections in U.S. are 10x too high to end pandemic The U.S. needs to drop from 160,000 to <10,000 new cases a day to get out of the pandemic phase. Eileen Drage O'Reilly Axios

Americans are now getting infected with COVID-19 at 10 times the rate needed to end the pandemic, which will persist until more people get vaccinated, NIAID director Anthony Fauci tells Axios.

Threat level: "The endgame is to suppress the virus. Right now, we're still in pandemic mode, because we have 160,000 new infections a day. That's not even modestly good control ... which means it's a public health threat."

• "In a country of our size, you can't be hanging around and having 100,000 infections a day. You've got to get well below 10,000 before you start feeling comfortable," Fauci says.
• Once enough people have been vaccinated, he adds, "you'll still get some people getting infected, but you're not going to have it as a public health threat." ...