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We know that it felt like a long marathon, our fight againstcoronavirus. But now, it's exactly the wrong time to leave your guard. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths increase and vaccinations did not go far enough. That is whyDr. Anthony Fauci, the Chief Medical Officer of the President and the Director of the National Institute of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, rings the alarm: all this "pain and suffering" is "completely preventable", a-T- he declares. Read five essential points that can save your life, including its big warning, that it shared with Martha Raddatz onThis weektoday - and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseSure sign that you have "Long" Covid and may even know.

Case numbers are now equal or exceeding the January surge; Do you remember that? "We can not let Covid's fatigue overcome us," said Dr. Faisci in Raddatz. "We are always in a situation where there are many things we can do about it. We now have about 80 million people in this country that are eligible for vaccinated that have not yet been vaccinated. We need to vaccinate these people. We have a very effective and safe tool to really lower these numbers. These are numbers that are really surprising. We are always in a climb. The numbers are very very alarming, but we can do something about it. If it were a situation in which we had no recourse or tools, you can see how frustrating it would be, but it's even more frustrating when you have the situation where we have a very effective vaccine, very safe , accessible, free and work. We really have to get these people who are not vaccinated in this group. "

"We have all these children at school and pediatric hospitals are at the highest point of the pandemic," Raddatz said. "The Delta variant comes to hit stronger than what we were expecting what happens?" "Well, what we see is that this variant is highly transmissible," said Fauci. "The ability to transmit anyone to the person is much larger and more effective than earlier variants, which affects both adults and children. So you will see more infected and quantitatively children, since more than more than more than Children are infected, you "I will see more kids unfortunately hospitalized. And that's what we see. We see that we need to reduce the spread of the community. You can protect children who can not be vaccinated because of their age. Yet we can protect them by surrounding them from a community of vaccinated people. That's how you protect the children. And you do it also by conforming to the CDC guidelines on masking, especially masking at school. Even if you have teachers vaccinated in vaccinated staff. You want to give this additional extra level of protection so we can protect them. "

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"At present, the data has been collected and we should have enough data by I would say the end of September, at the end of September, early October, so that this data can then be presented at the FDA, to examine for the risk provision of safety and efficiency ratio, "said Fauci." So, at least they will be able to look at the data as we enter in the middle and at the end of September, we hope we will act quickly depending on the data and their assessment of the ratio of risk benefits. "

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Fauci and the CDC announced that you should make your booster pull after 8 months. President Joe Biden confused the questions mentioning 5 months. For the moment: "What we still collect with the eight months. However, as we have said, even in the original statement that is released, we will have to go through the standard way of the FDA, looking at the data , then the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. So, although we sound with eight, we stay flexible if the data tells us differently, we will make adjustments accordingly. But for now, we collath with the eight , says Fauci.

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Follow the fundamentals of Fauci and help put an end to this pandemic, no matter where you live-yourself-hinder vaccinating. If you live in an area with low vaccination rates, wear a N95 facial mask Do not travel, social distance, avoid big crowds, do not go inside with people you are not shelter with (especially in bars), practice good hand hygiene and protect your life and the lives of others, don 't visit one of these 35 places you are most likely to catch Covid .