The US won’t reach the 1 million death toll from COVID-19 if more people in the country are vaccinated, Chief US Infectious Disease Specialist, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Anthony Fauci told CNN, Report informs.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in the US, about 692,000 deaths from the coronavirus have been recorded.
The US has vaccines that are highly effective and safe, Fauci said, stressing that mortality decline requires vaccination of the vast majority of the country’s population.
He reminded that about 70 million Americans still haven’t been vaccinated against coronavirus, although they have the right to do so.