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Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease specialist, warned Sunday that the U.S. is likely to see record numbers of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths as the omicron variant spreads rapidly.
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“We are going to see a significant stress in some regions of the country on the hospital system, particularly in those areas where you have a low level of vaccination,” Fauci said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Fauci described omicron as “extraordinary,” with a doubling time of two to three days. The variant accounts for 50 percent of cases in parts of the country, which meant it would almost certainly take over as the dominant variant in the U.S., he added. wapo.st/3q77PpD

He continued to urge the unvaccinated to get their shots and those who have received only two doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines to get booster doses.
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