Fauci warns of ‘two Americas’ due to widening gap between vaccinated and unvaccinated

President Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said he is concerned that the widening gap between the vaccinated and unvaccinated in America will get worse, leading to possible spikes in coronavirus cases.

“When you have such a low level of vaccination superimposed upon a variant that has a high degree of efficiency of spread, what you are going to see among undervaccinated regions, be that states, cities or counties, you’re going to see these individual types of blips,” Fauci said during an appearance on Don Lemon‘s CNN show.

“It’s almost like it’s going to be two Americas,” he added.

Federal health officials say after an initial surge of Americans being vaccinated, inoculation rates, particularly in the Southeast, have declined. Experts have cautioned that such disparities in vaccination rates could lead to localized outbreaks.

“This is entirely avoidable, entirely preventable,” Fauci said. “If you are vaccinated, you diminish dramatically your risk of getting infected and even more dramatically your risk of getting seriously ill. If you are not vaccinated, you are at considerable risk.”