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Get Ready for More COVID Vaccines, Masks, and Lockdowns as Fauci Wants More Money...

• https://healthimpactnews.com, by Brian Shilhavy

The COVID-19 "pandemic" is now entering its 3rd year, and Anthony Fauci has announced a new variant he wants everyone to be afraid of, and says he needs more money because everyone is going to need a 4th COVID-19 booster shot, and masks and other measures are probably going to return.

The U.S. could soon see Covid-19 cases rise again and vulnerable people are likely to need a fourth vaccine dose, one of President Joe Biden's top health advisers warned as the White House calls for more money to fight the pandemic.

Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a Biden adviser, said U.K. officials are already warning him of an increase there driven by the BA.2 sub-variant, easing restrictions and waning protection from vaccines, and that the U.S. tends to be a few weeks behind case curves in the U.K.

"We have all three of those factors right now in this country," Fauci said in an interview Thursday. "I would predict that we are going to see a bit of an increase, or at least a flattening out and plateauing of the diminution of cases. And the question is how do we deal with that."

The administration is calling on Congress to approve new funding to head off a fresh crisis, continue certain programs and buy new vaccines and treatments.

The funding is also crucial to continue clinical trials of booster shots and work on developing pan-coronavirus vaccines, Fauci said. The White House has sought $22.5 billion in funding, warning that it will soon have to wind down programs and can't buy more therapeutic treatments.

Without new funding, "a lot of things are going to stop. It really will be a very serious situation," Fauci said. "It just is almost unconscionable."