Fauci: Vaccines Should Allow California Colleges to Teach In-Person Next Fall 12-19-20 Lost Coast Outpost
While coronavirus cases are surging across California and overwhelming intensive care units, the country’s top infectious disease expert said Friday he’s “cautiously optimistic” that college students can return to campus in the fall. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he anticipates that COVID-19 vaccines will begin to become widely available to the general public in March and April, and that immunization combined with aggressive testing of students would bode well for an in-person school year.
“If we do that efficiently, and the doses of vaccine come in… by the time we get to April, May, June, July, August, we can get the overwhelming majority of the people in this country vaccinated so that by the time we get to the 2021-2022 term, I think we could be in good shape,” Fauci said.
Fauci made the comments in a live-streamed conversation with California State University Chancellor Tim White. The university, one of the first nationwide to pivot to online education this spring, announced last week it expects its nearly 500,000 students will return to in-person learning in the fall of 2021, citing the recent approval of two COVID-19 vaccines...
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In short, we'll just have to see where next Autumn Leaves us:
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