

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.

"Vaccination is the way to solve this problem, not masks and isolation. is heading towards another season of COVID-19 precautions as many states have rolled back all mandates and protocols in recent weeks.īut should hospitalizations and deaths begin to take an upward trend once again, experts say that bringing back the recently removed mask and isolation mandates won't do enough to prevent another surge. With the uptick in cases spurred by the highly-transmissible Omicron subvarient known as BA.2, some are worried that the U.S. The United States could be facing a hard road ahead should another surge of COVID-19 cases once again require the implementation of antivirus protocols, some experts believe.
