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The nation's top infectious disease expert says that COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising among people fully vaccinated who have not had booster shots.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said waning immunity from the initial shots is leading to a rise in severe cases among immunized Americans.
'What we're starting to see now is an uptick in hospitalizations among people who've been vaccinated but not boosted,' he told NBC News in an interview on Tuesday.
'It's a significant proportion, but not the majority by any means.'
It comes as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews applications from both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna for emergency use authorization of their booster shots, and could grant them as soon as this week.
Dr Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday the U.S. is seeing an 'uptick' in COVID-19 hospitalizations among fully vaccinated people who have not had a booster. Pictured: Fauci speaks at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, November 2021
The seven-day average of new Covid hospital admissions is 5,400, but it is unknown how many of these
