Fauci Predicts the United States Will Not Return to ‘Normality’ Until ‘Towards the End of 2021’

According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Americans may not be able to return to the way things were before the coronavirus pandemic until the end of next year.

Fauci told MSNBC it would be long before the majority of the population receives a coronavirus vaccine.

“By the time you mobilize the distribution of the vaccinations, and you get the majority, or more, of the population, vaccinated and protected that’s likely not going to happen until the mid or end of 2021,” Fauci said.

He continued, “If you’re talking about getting back to a degree of normality, which resembles where we were prior to COVID, it’s going to be well into 2021. Maybe even towards the end of 2021.”

Watch his remarks below:

During a panel discussion with doctors from the Harvard Medical School on Thursday, Fauci indicated the United States would face a challenging fall and winter, as IJR previously reported.

President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has come under fire after he told journalist Bob Woodward he “wanted to always play” the outbreak down, as IJR previously reported.

Fauci told Fox News on Wednesday he “didn’t get any sense” Trump was downplaying the coronavirus, as IJR previously reported