{"id":48942,"date":"2021-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/12\/covid-19-vaccines-likely-available-to-all-americans-by-april-fauci\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:10:41","slug":"covid-19-vaccines-likely-available-to-all-americans-by-april-fauci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/12\/covid-19-vaccines-likely-available-to-all-americans-by-april-fauci\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Vaccines Likely Available to All Americans by April: Fauci"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>By that time, increased supplies of the vaccines will allow most people to get vaccinated; herd immunity could be achieved by late summer<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, Feb. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Any American will be able to start getting vaccinated by April, the nation&#8217;s leading infectious diseases expert predicted Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;TODAY&#8221; show, Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that April will be &#8220;open season&#8221; for vaccinations, as increased supplies of the vaccines will allow most people to get shots to protect against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci added that the rate of vaccinations will greatly accelerate in the coming months. Why? He credited forthcoming deliveries of the two approved vaccines, the potential approval of a third vaccine, and recent measures taken to increase capacity to deliver doses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the time we get to April,&#8221; it will be &#8220;open season, namely virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated,&#8221; Fauci noted.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that good news, he cautioned it will take &#8220;several more months&#8221; to actually deliver shots to Americans, but herd immunity could be achieved by late summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/dr-fauci-it-will-be-open-season-by-april-for-everyone-to-receive-vaccines-100848197965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TODAY Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By that time, increased supplies of the vaccines will allow most people to get vaccinated; herd immunity could be achieved by late summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-48942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}