{"id":8230,"date":"2022-09-20T21:11:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=8230"},"modified":"2022-09-20T21:11:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:11:32","slug":"fauci-says-u-s-not-where-it-needs-to-be-after-biden-declares-pandemic-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/09\/20\/news\/8230\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci says U.S. not where it needs to be after Biden declares &#8220;pandemic is over&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8231\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/fouci-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait for COVID-19 testing in the Queens borough of New York, the United States, Dec. 29, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, Broadcasting News Corporation : U.S. top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said Monday that the United States is not where it needs to be regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden said that &#8220;the pandemic is over.&#8221; In a talk with the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies, Fauci said that much depends on how the country handles future virus variants. &#8220;How we respond and how we&#8217;re prepared for the evolution of these variants is going to depend on us,&#8221; Fauci was quoted by The Hill as saying. Fauci raised concerns that only 67 percent of the country was vaccinated and &#8220;only one-half of those have received a single boost.&#8221; Fauci noted that more than 400 deaths in the country are reported daily due to COVID-19. Fauci&#8217;s comments came a day after Biden declared &#8220;the pandemic is over&#8221; during an interview with CBS News that aired Sunday evening. &#8220;We still have a problem with COVID,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;We&#8217;re still doing a lot of work on it&#8230;but the pandemic is over.&#8221; NEWS COLLECTED FROM XINHUA NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Broadcasting News Corporation : U.S. top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said Monday that the United States is not where it needs to be regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden said that &#8220;the pandemic is over.&#8221; In a talk with the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8232,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions\/8232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}