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Fauci cautions COVID-19 variants could change timeline for end of pandemic
The emergence of more contagious variants of the coronavirus, especially ones from South Africa and Brazil that have been shown to reduce the immunity from natural infections and vaccines, have made it challenging to predict when the nation will be able to put the pandemic behind it, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Reuters in an interview Monday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said political divisiveness contributed significantly to the “stunning” U.S. COVID-19 death toll, and said that half a million deaths “should not have happened” in “a rich and sophisticated country,” Reuters reports.
“Even under the best of circumstances, this would have been a very serious problem,” Fauci said in an interview with Reuters on Monday, noting that despite strong adherence to public health measures, countries such as Germany and the UK struggled with the virus.
