Fauci: If We Allow Covid to Circulate, We’d Be at Risk of a New Variant that Could Resist Our Vaccines

EXCERPT:

FAUCI: "Well, as I have said multiple times, Chris, it is a situation where you have almost two Americas. An at-risk, continuing to get infected, continuing to get hospitalized, unvaccinated America, and a vaccinated America that has very low level of infection, very low level of hospitalization and very low death. So for the individuals within those areas that don’t want to get vaccinated, it’s going to be very risky from an individual health standpoint. From the country as a whole, it’s going to prevent us from just completely crushing this outbreak. So what we will have, because certain sections are not going to want to get vaccinated, is this smoldering threat that’s always there. And one of the threats that’s worrisome to everybody is that the more circulation of virus you have, without completely crushing it, the greater chance of the evolution of yet again another variant, which we may not be able to handle as well. Lucky for us, the variants that are circulating are handled quite well by the vaccines that are available. We are pretty lucky in that regard. If we keep allowing the virus to circulate, wherever it is, whatever red states or whatever states are not the ones that are getting vaccinated, then you have the threat of the entire system getting in trouble, because you have a new variant."