Doctor Anthony Fauci toured American TVs this Sunday to sound the alarm. The White House adviser on the health crisis has warned that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is “rampant” across the world, worrying about the number of Americans still unvaccinated.
“This virus is extraordinary”, admitted the scientist on CNN by evoking its speed of propagation. “He’s going to get the upper hand”, and “we’re going to have tough weeks or months as we get closer to winter.”
Omicron “is spreading really fast”
“It is spreading really quickly, literally around the world and without a doubt in our own country,” he added on ABC, recalling that nearly 50 million eligible Americans remained unvaccinated. “When you have this level of vulnerability and you have a virus like Omicron that spreads so quickly, it is very likely that in some parts of the country we will see significant pressure on the hospital system as well as on the workers in the hospital. health that is running out because of all this, ”he said, urging Americans to get vaccinated and get their booster dose.
The virus “is raging across the world, really,” he also insisted on NBC. The Omicron variant is indeed spreading at full speed, causing restrictions in many countries such as containment in the Netherlands.
The pandemic has killed more than 5 million people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease in late December 2019. The United States is the most bereaved country with more than 800,000 deaths.