Though coronavirus caseloads, deaths and hospitalizations are declining in the U.S., the nation’s top infectious disease expert is urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted as a new variant has cases rising across Europe.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said the uptick in cases across the UK and Europe can be attributed to the increased transmissibility of the descendant of omicron known as BA.2; the removal of restrictions such as indoor masking, and waning immunity from vaccines and prior coronavirus infection.

“We can probably expect in this country that, given that we have those three conditions … we can expect to start to see, I would imagine in the next week or so, an increase in cases in some regions of the country, particularly those areas that are undervaccinated,” Fauci said.

Because BA.2 is more transmissible, it will eventually overtake the original omicron strain as the dominant variant in the U.S., he said.... Read More: WTOP