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"We all have been surprised at what COVID has done in the past, and I don't think our confidence is complete. "I think that is very premature," Schaffner told Newsweek. He mentioned that as COVID-19 has begun to ease up in the U.S., Congress has taken steps to decrease funding that goes to public health, which could play a vital role should the U.S. "I anticipate realistically that we are going to have a new normal summer, there may well be a lot of Omicron and BA.2 variant spreading, but perhaps causing an awful lot of mild illness," Schaffner said. People would be very skeptical, very reluctant, and quite vocal about it." Schaffner told Newsweek that reinstituting protocols "would be extremely difficult. The same thoughts were echoed by William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said in December that he believed it would be "very, very difficult" to shut down given the "mood of the country." Obviously, some states have been opposed to this all along, so for some, it will be virtually impossible." "It's going to be a state-by-state kind of a thing. "Most of the United States has 'COVID fatigue' and they kind of want some real reason to go through all of this again," Havlichek said.
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