Fauci Says the U.S. Is Out of the Pandemic Phase

Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States is finally “out of the pandemic phase,” the Washington Post reports.

“While infections are still spreading — with an average of over 50,000 new cases per day as of Tuesday — the country is far from the peaks of the pandemic, when daily counts surpassed 1 million. Restrictions, too, are easing as many Americans appear to be putting the pandemic behind them.”

Said Fauci: “We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase.”

He added that the coronavirus will not be eradicated, but can be handled if its level of spread is kept “very low” and people are “intermittently” vaccinated.