Anthony Fauci博士周日表示，他没想到美国的COVID-19大流行死亡人数不会达到目前的水平，他对室内活动和假日旅行促进了病毒传播感到遗憾，并呼吁美国人采取必要的公共安全预防措施减缓持续的增长。
美国最大的传染病专家周日在美国广播公司的“本周”联合主持人玛莎·拉达兹（Martha Raddatz）的讲话中说：“一天之内要有30万例，每天要造成2至3,000例死亡。” “没有数字能逃脱，玛莎。这是我们绝对必须掌握的，可以全力以赴，并且通过在全国范围内高度统一地严格遵守公共卫生措施来遏制这种变化，这毫无例外。”
福齐发表上述评论的时间是在唐纳德·特朗普总统在一条推文中误导性宣称，尽管全国范围内病例持续增加，但疾病控制和预防中心的数字仍被夸大了。即使由于假期报告不一致而导致最近的数据波动，自10个月大流行以来，美国本周末的COVID-19病例仍2000万例，死亡35万例。
美国国家过敏和传染病研究所所长福西（Fauci）在拉达兹（Raddatz）要求他回应总统的推文时说：“这些死亡是真实的死亡。” “您所需要做的就是走进战trench。去医院看看医护人员的病情。在该国许多地区，他们都处在非常紧张的局势中。医院的病床已经绷紧，人们在奔跑。下床，精疲力尽的精疲力尽。”
“那是真的，”他继续说道。“那不是假的。那是真的。”
在“本周”上，福西还回应了人们对美国疫苗接种速度日益增长的担忧
拉达兹说：“许多州仅使用了所接受疫苗的一小部分。” “造成延误的最大原因是什么？”
Fauci回答说：“我认为这只是想开始大规模的疫苗计划，然后马上走下坡路。”他承认，在规模庞大的情况下，存在“一些小故障”，他称之为“可理解的”。的努力。但是医生认为，最近的数字提供了“希望的曙光”。
Fauci说：“在过去的72个小时中，他们已经将150万剂注射到人们的怀里，平均每天约有500,000剂，这比开始时要好得多，远不止于此。” “所以我们不是我们想要的地方，这毫无疑问，但是我认为，如果我们真正加速前进，取得一些动力，并观察到进入一月的前几个星期会发生什么，我们就可以到达那里。 ”
“正如我一直担心和警告，分发和接种疫苗是没有进展，因为它应该努力”总统当选人拜登周二表示，声称以目前的速度，“这将需要几年的时间 - 而不是几个月 - -为美国人民接种疫苗。”
犹他州参议员罗姆尼（Mitt Romney）周五在一份声明中说：“与疫苗的开发不同，接种过程本身落后。” “尚未在联邦一级制定全面的疫苗接种计划，并以模型的形式发送给各州，这是不可理解的，也是不可原谅的。”
特朗普在周日早上的另一条推文中指出了分娩和免疫接种数量之间的差距，似乎将差距视为成功分配计划的结果。
“联邦政府将疫苗运送到各州的速度远远超过了疫苗的接种速度！” 特朗普写道。
即使美国的疫苗接种计划加速进行，健康专家仍担心对疫苗接种的持续怀疑可能会延长流感大行的时间。上周，俄亥俄州州长迈克·德维恩（Mike DeWine）报告说，合格的养老院工作人员中有60％的人正在减少疫苗的使用。福西曾说过，可能有超过70％的人口需要进行免疫接种才能获得牛群免疫。
在“本周”上，拉德达兹（Raddatz）在对福西（Fauci）敦促他预测大流行病逐渐消退的日子和一“正常感”可能在秋天到来时向她表示不信任该疫苗。
他说：“这完全取决于疫苗的摄取。” “如果从4月，5月，6月，7月和8月开始，我们要执行我正在谈论的那种（增加）疫苗实施-到我们结束时，每天至少要有（1百万）人，甚至更多。夏天到秋天，我们将达到一定程度的畜群免疫力，我认为这将使我们回到某种形式的正常状态。”
在展望未来时，福西回忆起70年前在他的家乡纽约成功进行了疫苗接种工作，这为他认为2021年全美可能发生的疫情提供了一个蓝图。1947年，有500万纽约人因天花免疫接种了他说两个星期。
Fauci在周日的采访中指出：“在头100天为1亿人接种疫苗的目标是现实的目标。” “我们每天可以做一百万人。您知道我们在历史上已经进行了大规模的疫苗接种计划。没有理由我们现在不能这样做。”
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he did not anticipate the COVID-19pandemic death toll in the United States would reach current levels, lamenting that indoor activity and holiday travel has facilitated virus transmission and calling for Americans to take the necessary public safety precautions to slow the ongoing surge.
"To have 300,000 cases in a given day, and between two and 3,000 deaths a day is just terrible," the nation's top infectious disease expert told ABC's "This Week" Co-anchor Martha Raddatz Sunday. "There's no running away from the numbers, Martha. It's something that we absolutely got to grasp and get our arms around and turn that inflection down by very intensive adherence to the public health measures, uniformly, throughout the country, with no exception."
Fauci's comments came minutes after President Donald Trumpmisleadingly claimed inthat the numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of infected persons and deaths in the country are "exaggerated," despite coronavirus cases continuing to increase nationwide. Even as recent data fluctuates due to inconsistent reporting over the holidays, the U.S. this weekend topped 20 million COVID-19 cases and 350,000 deaths since the onset of the pandemic 10 months ago.
"The deaths are real deaths," Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said, when asked by Raddatz for his response to the president's tweet. "All you need to do is go out into the trenches. Go to the hospitals and see what the health care workers are dealing with. They are under very stressful situations in many areas of the country. The hospital beds are stretched, people are running out of beds, running out of trained personnel who are exhausted."
"That's real," he continued. "That's not fake. That's real."
On "This Week," Fauci also responded to growing concerns over the speed of vaccinations in the U.S.
"Many states (are) using just a small percentage of the vaccines they have received," Raddatz said. "What's the biggest cause of this delay?"
"I think it's just trying to get a massive vaccine program started and getting off on-the-right-foot," Fuci responded, acknowledging that there have been "a couple of glitches," which he called "understandable," given the scale of the effort. But the doctor contended that recent numbers offered a "glimmer of hope."
"In the last 72 hours, they've gotten 1.5 million doses into people's arms, which is an average of about 500,000 a day, which is much better than the beginning when it was much, much less than that," Fauci said. "So we are not where we want to be, there is no doubt about that, but I think we can get there if we really accelerate, get some momentum going and see what happens as we get into the first couple of weeks of January."
As of Sunday morning, over 14 million vaccine doses have been distributed across the U.S., but only 4.2 million people have received shots, according to the CDC, prompting criticism of the government's rollout plan from both Democrats and Republicans.
"As I long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should," President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday, claiming that at the current pace, "it's going to take years -- not months -- to vaccinate the American people."
"Unlike the development of the vaccines, the vaccination process itself is falling behind," Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said in a statement Friday. "That comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable."
Trump noted the gap between the delivery and immunization numbers in a separate tweet Sunday morning, appearing to characterize the disparity as the effect of a successful distribution plan.
"The vaccines are being delivered to the states by the Federal Government far faster than they canbe administered!" Trump wrote.
Even if the U.S. vaccination program accelerates, health experts are concerned that continued skepticism about the inoculation could prolong the pandemic. Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine of eligible nursing home workers were declining the vaccine; Fauci upwards of 70% of the population will likely need to be immunized to achieve herd immunity.
On "This Week," Raddatz referenced that distrust of the vaccine as she pressed Fauci about his prediction that the pandemic's waning days and a sense of "normality" could arrive by the fall.
"It is totally going to depend on the uptake of vaccines," he said. "If from April, May, June, July and August,we do the kind of (increased) vaccine implementation that I'm talking about -- at least (1) million people a day and maybe more -- by the time we end the summer and get to the fall, we will have achieved that level of herd immunity that I think will get us back to some form of normality."
While looking ahead, Fauci recalled the success of a vaccination effort over 70 years ago in his home city of New York that provides a blueprint for what he believes is possible in 2021 across the U.S. In 1947, 5 million New Yorkers were immunized for smallpox in two weeks, he said.
"The goal of vaccinating 100 million people in the first 100 days is a realistic goal," Fauci noted earlier in Sunday's interview. "We can do 1 million people per day. You know we’ve done massive vaccination programs, Martha, in our history. There’s no reason why we can’t do it right now."
