Getting People Vaccinated Is Key To Fix India's Covid-19 Crisis, Says Dr Fauci

US public health expert, Dr Anthony Fauci believes that the only long term solution that could help India in its current crisis is getting people vaccinated, as he asks vaccine makers to scale up manufacturing domestically and globally to fight the deadly pandemic.

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It¡¯s been over a month since our nation has been struggling with the tough ordeal of the second wave of the novel coronavirus and with each passing day, it¡¯s showing no signs of slowing down, with India reporting 3.66 lakh cases, 3,754 deaths in the past 24 hours.

The endgame is to get everyone vaccinated

Fauci, in a conversation with ABC News, however, believes mass vaccination is the way India could get out of this ordeal, ¡°The endgame of this all...is going to be to get people vaccinated"

"India is the largest vaccine-producing country in the world. They've got to get their resources, not only from within but also from without.¡±

He said while asking other nations to come together to help clear this vaccine divide in India, ¡°That's the reason why other countries need to chip in to be able to get either supply to the Indians to make their own vaccines or to get vaccines donated."

"One of the ways to do that is to have the big companies that have the capability of making vaccines to really scale up in a great way to get literally hundreds of millions of doses to be able to get to them.¡±

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Set up makeshift hospitals

Along with this, he has also urged the nation to set up makeshift hospitals as China did a year ago. He stated that India cannot have people out on the street without a hospital bed. He also expressed his views on the oxygen shortage in India, stating that it was ¡°really critical¡± and ¡°tragic.¡±

Lockdown is needed

Fauci also stated that apart from vaccines, there¡¯s another way to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus -- through a complete lockdown.

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He explained, ¡°Vaccines is one of them but there are other ways too, like shutting down the government. I have advised them in the past that you really need to do that. You've got to shut down. I believe several of the Indian states have already done that, but you need to break the chain of transmission. And one of the ways to do that is to shut down.¡±