07/13/2021

Expert Says Americans Need to Make a Choice to Avoid a New COVID Surge

He says all it takes is getting vaccinated

With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increasing in communities with low vaccination rates, an expert says Americans face a choice: get vaccinated or continue dealing with the impacts of the pandemic.

"We can't have it both ways; we can't be both unmasked and non-socially distant and unvaccinated. That won't work," said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University.

The United States is now averaging about 23,346 new cases a day over the past seven days, a 97 percent increase from the week prior, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

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