Fauci: Masks, Social Distancing Likely Until 2022

With cases continuing to rise in many states and a vaccine yet to come, Americans should prepare to wear masks and social distance for quite a while. People will likely need to wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines through the end of 2021 and into 2022, one of the nation’s top infectious disease experts said during a recent meeting, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer . Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke about the future of COVID-19 during a virtual meeting with doctors and students at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia last week. “I feel very strongly that we’re going to need to have some degree of public health measures to continue,” he said. “It’s not going to be the way it was with polio and measles, where you get a vaccine,