{"id":97296,"date":"2021-08-02T05:49:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T10:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=97296"},"modified":"2021-08-02T05:49:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T10:49:57","slug":"auto-draft-646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/08\/02\/auto-draft-646\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Predicts Worsening Virus Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON – The top U.S. infectious disease expert said Sunday that the country is facing \u201csome pain and suffering\u201d with the surging delta variant of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden\u2019s top medical adviser, told ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d show, \u201cThings are going to get worse,\u201d and laid the blame on millions of people who have not been vaccinated against the virus.<\/p>\n

As the number of new cases has risen sharply in recent weeks, some people who have not been vaccinated say they now are considering getting shots. But millions more are saying that for one reason or another they have no intention of getting inoculated no matter how many health officials urge them to do so.<\/p>\n

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FILE – Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 20, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fauci, who almost daily prods Americans to get vaccinated, said, \u201cYou are protecting yourself from getting seriously ill and perhaps dying. The unvaccinated are allowing the propagation of the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. is already recording 70,000 new coronavirus cases a day, up nearly 60,000 over the last six weeks, to a level not seen since February. The caseload is being fueled by the delta variant first discovered in India. The coronavirus causes the COVID-19 disease.<\/p>\n

Some disease trackers are predicting even bigger caseloads, to 140,000 to 300,000 new infections later in August as the highly transmissible delta variant spreads throughout the United States.<\/p>\n

Scientists now say that even those already vaccinated can spread the variant, prompting the government\u2019s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, to issue a new directive last week. The CDC said that those already vaccinated should again wear face masks in indoor public settings in parts of the country where the number of new cases is spreading the fastest.<\/p>\n

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FILE – A woman wears a mask against COVID-19, following the CDC’s recommendation that even fully vaccinated Americans wear masks to limit the spread of the highly transmissible coronavirus delta variant, in New York City, July 27, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The directive has drawn rebukes from some Republican governors who have relaxed coronavirus restrictions in their states in recent months and voiced opposition to new face masking orders or any directive for mandatory vaccinations. Biden last week ordered more than 2 million federal workers to get vaccinated before returning to offices in the coming months or face frequent tests to prove they do not have the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Doug Ducey, the Republican governor in the southwestern state of Arizona, dismissed the CDC directive, saying, “Arizona does not allow mask mandates, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports or discrimination in schools based on who is or isn\u2019t vaccinated. We\u2019ve passed all of this into law, and it will not change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ducey said the CDC directive \u201cis just another example\u201d of the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cinability to effectively confront the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fauci said he disagreed with the Republican officials\u2019 complaints that the new masking recommendations were overkill. He rejected complaints by those who refuse to get vaccinations and have said their individual liberties are being eroded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a very serious health challenge,\u201d Fauci said. \u201cThe fact is that if you get infected [and pass on the virus to others]\u00a0you are encroaching on their individual rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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