{"id":114609,"date":"2021-02-22T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114609"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:30:06","slug":"covid-19-americans-could-still-need-to-wear-masks-in-2022-says-fauci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114609","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Americans could still need to wear masks in 2022, says Fauci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.fox23.com\/resizer\/9aoN8WyM1pbtDX5__sTTlUZXFyY=\/1200x675\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/YQUNEATCGVD2BAPXD7GP2YOGCE.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus: Americans could still be wearing face masks into 2022, Fauci says\"\/><figcaption>Dr Anthony Fauci <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022 to protect against the coronavirus, said Anthony Fauci, the nation&#8217;s top infectious disease expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci said even as the United States may reach &#8220;a significant degree of normality&#8221; by the end of this year, Americans will still need to wear masks next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His comments came as the COVID-19 death toll in the United States is approaching 500,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci stressed the importance of mitigation measures to fight the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and its emerging variants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country is ramping up its vaccine rollout, which has been hindered by power outages amid the ongoing winter storms in much of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci hoped high school students, far fewer of whom have gone back to classrooms compared with younger children, would be eligible for vaccination in the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccinations for younger children, however, &#8220;likely will not be before the beginning of the first quarter of 2022,&#8221; Fauci said. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022 to protect against the coronavirus, said Anthony Fauci, the nation&#8217;s top infectious disease expert. Fauci said even as the United States may reach &#8220;a significant degree of normality&#8221; by the end of this year, Americans will still need to wear masks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}