Fauci confident in vaccine efforts, predicts no more U.S. lockdowns despite virus surge

The United States does not need more widespread lockdowns to bring its COVID-19 outbreak under control, despite the fact that the national daily infection rate has stayed flat, leading government expert Anthony Fauci said Thursday.

The physician-scientist told reporters that he was optimistic the world would soon have a vaccine that would end the pandemic, calling early trial results "encouraging."

"I don't think we're going to be talking about going back to lockdown," he said when asked whether places like California and Texas that are seeing a surge in their caseload should reissue stay-at-home orders.

"I think we're going to be talking about trying to better control those areas of the country that seem to be having a surge of cases."

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