Fauci says US won't get back to normal until late 2021

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Even as movie theaters, gyms and salons are opening and some states are allowing limited indoor dining, daily life in the U.S. won't get back to normal until late 2021 when a vaccine for COVID-19 is widely distributed, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Friday.

In an interview with "Andrea Mitchell Reports" on MSNBC, Fauci, who is the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that he remains confident there will be a vaccine available by the end of this year or early 2021.

"But by the time you mobilize the distribution of the vaccine and get a majority or more of the population vaccinated and protected, that’s likely not going to happen until the end of 2021," he said. "If you’re talking about getting back to a degree of normality prior to COVID, it’s going to be well into 2021, towards the end of 2021."

When the U.S. is plateauing at a high level of around 40,000 news cases and 1,000 deaths a day, Fauci also voiced concerns about states starting to resume certain indoor activities like dining.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-says-us-wont-get-back-to-normal-until-late-2021/ar-BB18WHQa?li=BBnb7Kz

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. At least.

This is not going to go away soon or easily. Even with a safe and effective vaccine, if for no other reason than it will probably take at least a year to vaccinate enough people. If it can even be done. I've read that the vaccines being tested will need to be stored at subzero temperatures. That won't be a problem in first world countries, but most of Africa? India? Other warm countries with poor infrastructure?

The other thing is that we are all adapting to new ways of doing things in every aspect of our lives. A lot of that won't go away.

[Solly Mack]

2. I seem to recall him saying as much before.