Fauci urges Americans to have a ‘vaccinated, boosted, home-related’ New Year’s Eve, avoid large parties with ‘hugging and kissing’ and says ‘we’ll have to learn to live’ with COVID because it will NEVER be eradicated
Dr. Anthony Fauci shut down any Americans’ ideas for big New Year’s Eve parties this year
‘If your plans are to go to a 40 to 50-person New Year’s Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing… I would strongly recommend that this year, we do not do that’ Fauci said Wednesday
He added a sobering message during Wednesday’s White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing: ‘Ultimately we’re going to have to live with something that will not be eradicated’
Fauci said Wednesday ‘all indications point to a lesser severity of Omicron versus Delta’
The CDC made a shock revision of Omicron prevalence, cutting the number of cases of the new strain by half
Omicron accounted for 23% of all cases in the week ending December 18, as opposed to 73% initially reported
The Omicron variant accounted for 59% of all new cases for the week ending on December 25, CDC says
It means that Delta has been accounting for far more infections than the agency initially thought
On Tuesday the US broke its record for daily COVID-19 cases, with a seven-day average of 264,546 cases
The U.S. recorded 377,014 new cases on Tuesday and 2,377 deaths in 24 hours
