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As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...

As the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to remain well-below previous peaks, and as vaccinations increase, the USA TODAY Network-Tennessee reached out to disease expert Anthony Fauci to get his predictions about the future. Fauci, the Biden administration's lead advisor on the pandemic and an immunologist with more than 50 years of experience working to contain diseases, recently predicted in a published article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that so-called "herd immunity" to the virus is likely impossible.  But, in an interview this week, he expressed cautious optimism that the worst is now behind us. Questions were edited for clarity and answers were edited for length. Q: What are your thoughts on the future of the pandemic? Is this something th...