WASHINGTON - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases said on Wednesday that COVID-19 is not yet at the level of being reduced to an endemic illness, despite increased efforts to vaccinate as many people as possible.
Speaking at a White House briefing, Fauci said he doesn’t believe COVID-19 will ultimately be eradicated, but he feels confident that vaccination is the best tool to eliminate the disease from a particular region. "We’ve eliminated diseases by vaccination, like polio in the United States, as it exists other places.
We’ve eliminated measles in the United States; it exists other places. We’ve eliminated malaria years and years ago, but it exists in other places," Fauci said.