Dr. Fauci Says This Is Why It's Not Time to Drop Mask Mandates Yet

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As COVID cases continue to decline, some local officials are taking this as a green light to lift the restrictions brought on by the Omicron surge. In just the last week, more than 10 states—including California, New York, and Massachusetts—have made moves to end or revise their mask mandates, according to The New York Times. At the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that as of Feb. 11, new daily coronavirus and hospital admissions were down by 42 percent and 25 percent, respectively. But despite the country's clear improvement from its pandemic peak in Jan. 2022, many virus experts are not ready to sign off on ending every precaution just yet. Read on to find out why the nation's top COVID adviser says the U.S. should not be rushing to end mask mandates.

During a Feb. 15 interview on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes, top White House COVID adviser Anthony Fauci, MD, discussed the country's ongoing fight against the virus and where we are in terms of ending the pandemic. According to Fauci, it is good news that cases and hospitalizations are going down every day in the U.S., indicating that "we're going in the right direction," he said.
"But we're not out of the woods yet," Fauci warned. "You may be done with COVID, but COVID is not done with the United States … We've got to do what it takes to get it to be done."

While some states have started getting rid of mask mandates, that might be premature, according to Fauci—particularly because we are not out of the woods yet. "The CDC still now recommends masking because of the degree of infection that we're seeing," he told MSNBC.

"But what I believe the states are doing is anticipating that we are going in the right direction and they feel they might as well just get back to trying to get some form of normality by pulling back on restrictions," Fauci continued. "We've got to be careful about that. You don't want to be declaring victory prematurely."

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[SheltieLover]

1. BA.2 ramping up

36 deaths here today...

[Busterscruggs]

2. This mess

Is going to take decades to get under control. It will be up to the diligent to warn the unknowing that their failure to wear a mask is a death sentence to not only them but those in the vicinity. It will take an all-in approach including social distancing, decontamination and continued vaccines and boosters to bring back some form of normalcy.

[Tomconroy]

3. Not wearing a mask is a death sentence?

I'm not sure that kind of statement helps your cause.

[Busterscruggs]

4. Why

Not? I wear mine whenever in public, social distance and vaccine and boost so I don't catch the latest variant. It's the right and safest thing to do

[Tomconroy]

5. It seemed like you are saying that anyone who doesn't wear

one is of necessity going to die.

[Busterscruggs]

6. Your chances

Are exponentially higher of death without the mask and face shield

[beaglelover]

9. Not if your vaxed and boosted. If you want to wear a mask, fine.

Many of us who are fully vaxed and boosted are ready to drop the masks forever. If you don't feel safe without a mask, please continue to wear one but don't force everyone else to if they are fully vaxed and boosted and have practically a zero percent chance of dying if they catch covid.

[Tomconroy]

10. In theory they should help. But even the studies that claim

to establish they make a difference do not show the difference is anything like exponential.

[Meowmee]

13. You are correct

And even if you have an asymptomatic or a so called mild case you can have longterm organ damage, you can still transmit the virus and kill others, you ensure more mutations and you perpetuate this misery which those of us who have TRULY suffered would like to end for good.

[kacekwl]

7. And when shit goes south

they will blame Fauci and Biden for not doing enough to save them.

[area51]

11. +1 n/t

[Freethinker65]

8. Fauci may be correct, but mandates will be rescinded anyway

Time will tell if he was correct.

New variants might emerge. Immunity might become less over time. Americans were told once there was a vaccine, returning to normal activities would happen, they were never told there would be no risk. Individuals will have to decide how much risk they are willing to take. It has been two years.

One thing I am sure of is I will have no sympathy for anyone that refused a vaccine out of willful ignorance should they become ill.

I also will refrain from public transportation if mask mandates on such transportation gets lifted.

[Talitha]

12. I'm pushing 70 and will continue wearing N95 masks until..

Until Dr Fauci or the CDC announces that Covid-19 has become endemic.