Dr. Anthony Fauci walked back his prediction Monday that it will take the United States more than one year to get control of COVID-19.
During an appearance on CNN, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser offered an apology and said he meant to say the goal is actually within reach sooner - the spring of 2022 instead of the fall of next year as he said earlier in the day - but only if people holding out on getting vaccinated decide to get the jab.
Moderna, whose vaccine relies on the same mRNA technology as the one developed by Pfizer, filed its application for full approval in June, and it is expected to be granted this fall.
There is no COVID-19 vaccine available for children 12 and under.
CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS EIGHT STATES THAT PROHIBIT SCHOOL MASK MANDATES More than 171 million people have been fully vaccinated in the U.S., which is 51.5% of the population, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Roughly 6 in 10 people in the U.S. say they support students and teachers should be required to wear masks while in K-12 schools, and similar numbers were reported for vaccine mandates among those eligible, according to a poll from the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reported on Monday.
"COVID-19 vaccines are effective and are a critical tool to bring the pandemic under control. However, no vaccines are 100% effective at preventing illness in vaccinated people. There will be a small percentage of fully vaccinated people who still get sick, are hospitalized, or die from COVID-19," the CDC states on its website.
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