Dr. Fauci says America getting back to normal and where it was before the coronavirus crisis ‘might not ever happen’ without a vaccine

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Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States might never get entirely back to where it was before the novel coronavirus outbreak, especially without a vaccine.
“If you want to get back to pre-coronavirus, that might not ever happen in the sense that the threat is there,” Fauci said, expressing optimism that new therapies and a vaccine will help the US recover.
Fauci said that with “the therapies that will be coming online, and the fact that I feel confident that over a period of time we will get a good vaccine, that we will never have to get back to where we are right now.”
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In a Monday press briefing of the White House Coronavirus task force, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States might never get entirely back to where it was before the novel coronavirus outbreak, especially without a vaccine and effective treatments.

As of Monday, there are currently over 364,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the United States, with over 9,600 deaths, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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