With US recording its highest daily Covid case load in six months, a top public health official warns the country is 'failing' in its battle to keep coronavirus in check
"We should not really have ever got to the place we are," says Francis Collins, director of National Institutes of Health, as Delta variant sparks surge in vaccination rates.
"We should not really have ever got to the place we are," Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.A surge of the highly transmissible Delta variant has brought a slew of bad news in the United States, which already has the highest reported death toll worldwide from Covid-19 at more than 616,000.
"We would not be in the place we are right now with this Delta surge if we had been more effective in getting everybody" vaccinated, Collins said.Another top health official, infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci, said final full approval of key vaccines from the federal Food and Drug Administration could come as early as this month –– something some skeptics have said they need to hear before taking the plunge.
"In the meantime, we urge everyone to follow the guidelines and protocols put forth by public health officials," organisers said in a statement. Yet in Florida, one of the states hardest hit by the latest surge, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis sparked a political furor when he issued an order barring the state's school districts from mandating mask-wearing.
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