'This is a very dynamic situation,' Fauci said. 'We are dealing with a brand-new, extraordinarily transmissible variant, the Omicron variant.'
"This is a very dynamic situation," Fauci said."We are dealing with a brand-new, extraordinarily transmissible variant, the Omicron variant."
Fauci said even though COVID-19 cases are again on the rise, the vaccines are doing their job by protecting people against more severe illness. "Although the vaccination, when you have a highly transmissible virus, may not prevent you from getting infected, it is very likely that you will either be without symptoms or minimally symptomatic. The major purpose of the vaccine is to prevent you from getting sick, from getting clinically ill and, hopefully, to prevent you from getting hospitalized and dying," Fauci said."In fact, the data show that the vaccines are highly successful in doing just that.
"Family gatherings, people who are together who know that they are vaccinated and boosted, in a setting of the home, is fine," Fauci said."But I think it would be prudent for people, as best as you possibly can, to avoid these types of 30-, 40-, 50-person parties, where you don't know the vaccination status of the people that are surrounding you. This is a very formidable virus.
"So what is the reason why you do not want to get vaccinated?" Fauci asked."Is that because it is ideological? Or a political reason not to do it? That doesn't make any sense when you're dealing with a crisis that this nation and that this world is in right now.
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