Nation could return to ‘some form of normality’ by the fall, Fauci says

“I believe that we can attain that, if we do it well, by early to mid-fall,” he said.

He said President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to get 100 million people vaccinated in the first 100 days of his administration is “entirely feasible.” That would be followed by an “open season” in which anyone who wants to get vaccinated can get vaccinated, he said.

“And if we do that, efficiently, from April, May, June, July, August, by the time we get to the beginning of the fall, we should have that degree of protection that I think can get us back to some form of normality,” he said.

He also said that as the vaccines are administered to millions there would be a gradual impact on the pandemic.

“That doesn’t mean between the spring and the summer and the fall, that we’re going to be completely shut down. I think there will be an impact on the dynamics of the outbreak gradually until we reach that level of herd immunity,” he said.

Biden, who will be sworn in Wednesday, has appointed Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to become his chief medical adviser and part of his coronavirus response team.