Getting vaccinated and boosted, plus wearing a mask in public indoor settings, remain the best ways to protect yourself and the people around you.
“Do not pull back on your guard,” Fauci told NBC’s “Weekend TODAY.”
On Monday, the Biden administration restricted most air travel from South Africa and seven other countries: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Travel bans cannot completely prevent the virus from entering the country, but they “delay it enough to get us better prepared,” Fauci said. Lockdowns aren’t currently being discussed, Biden said Monday.
Even if omicron gets bad, it probably won’t undo the world’s Covid-fighting progress.
Tests can easily detect omicron, promising therapeutics like the antiviral pills are on the horizon and scientists know much more about the disease than they did in March 2020, Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, tweeted on Sunday.
Update: This story has been updated to include BioNTech CEO Dr. Ugur Sahin’s comments on Covid vaccine effectiveness against the omicron variant.
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