Fauci Sees Fall Coronavirus Surge as BA.2 Infections Rise

An expert on infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci, said this week that the number of cases in the U.S. of coronavirus will rise this fall because of the highly contagious strain BA.2.

Fauci told Bloomberg TV that he believes “it is likely that we will see a surge in the fall.”

“I would think that we should expect that we are going to see some increase in cases as you get to the colder weather in the fall,” he said.

If coronavirus cases go up over the next few weeks, that won’t surprise him. His comments come at a time when the number of new cases in the U.S. is already going up a little. When BA.2, also known as “stealth omicron,” is the most common strain in the U.S. and all over the world, this isn’t a surprise.

CDC data shows that the daily average number of infections has risen to 26,600 as of Wednesday. Average: 24,800 new cases were reported on March 29. That’s up from an average of 24,800 new cases per day.

After months of going down, there has been a slight rise in the number of cases. The omicron wave peaked in mid-January, when there were more than 800,000 cases a day. Now, most states are seeing more infections, including New York, Maine, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Washington, and Oregon.

The average number of people who die each day from the coronavirus is still going down, though. It hasn’t been this low since last summer.

Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, said earlier this week that some areas are seeing more infections and hospitalizations.”

Some counties have seen an increase in both the number of cases and the number of people who need to be hospitalised or stay in an in-patient bed. This has led to an increased COVID-19 community level in some areas “When she spoke to the news media, she said that.

In addition, she said that people have a “high level of immunity” because of vaccines and previous illnesses. This will help protect them from BA.2.

“As we’ve previously shared about the BA.2 variant, there is no evidence that BA.2 results in more severe disease compared with the BA.1 variant, nor does it appear to be more likely to evade immune protection than BA.1,” Walensky said. “But BA.2 does appear to be more transmissible than BA.1.”