Americans can breathe a collective - but small - sigh of relief, as the president’s chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, reassured the US that the country is now “out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase”.
Speaking to The Washington Post and PBS’s NewsHour in recent interviews this week, the infectious disease expert emphasised that though the country is not in a place where he could confidently call the pandemic over, he did believe with the current rates of hospitalisations and deaths that the public health crisis that had claimed nearly one million lives in the US could move into a more “controlled phase”.
