This is the closest this country has come to the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic nearly 2 years ago.

[WH advisor Anthony] Fauci said he expected it to be months before antiviral drugs can be mass-produced and available to anyone who needs them. While he did not foresee the kind of lockdowns that were put in place in the early days of the pandemic, Fauci also noted that it would be difficult to keep the virus under control when there remained “about 50 million people in the country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not vaccinated.”