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Top White House coronavirus adviser Anthony Fauci said on CNN Monday morning that Americans should cancel their New Year’s Eve parties due to the increasing spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, as Americans struggle to find some normalcy as the pandemic wraps up its second year.
“I would stay away from that,” Fauci said when asked about the annual parties on CNN’s “New Day.”
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“I have been telling people consistently that if you’re vaccinated and boosted and you have a family setting, in the home with family and relatives,” it’s okay to gather, Fauci continued. “But when you’re talking about a New Year’s Eve party, we have 30, 40, 50 people celebrating. You do not know the status of their vaccination, I would recommend strongly stay away from that this year.”
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Fauci’s advice comes on the heels of many state and local officials telling Americans that they should shun unvaccinated family members for Christmas, mask-up around family members from other households or even cancel their Christmas gathering altogether for the second straight year.
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Louisiana’s government told people to “mask indoors when not with your everyday household.” Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser recommended the same, telling people to “wear masks indoors, even at small gatherings.”
The Milwaukee Health Department, meanwhile, said people should gather “with only fully vaccinated friends and family.” And Philadelphia Health Commissioner Chery Bettigole said, “Please do not hold or attend holiday parties indoors, it’s just too dangerous.”
