The pathogen will probably not be eradicated. “If you look at the history of infectious diseases, we’ve only eradicated one infectious disease, and that’s smallpox,” Fauci said Monday at a virtual roundtable at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Fauci believes it is necessary to develop a vaccine that better covers all current and, above all, possible newly emerging variants. This would be “a very, very important scientific goal” because the adaptation of the vaccine to current variants of the development of the virus is currently being pursued, which is not helpful in the long term.
Fauci also said that one of the biggest mistakes in fighting the pandemic was that countries acted largely alone. “I think we should have had a much more coordinated global response, as I have said so many times. A global pandemic requires a global response.”