SACRAMENTO, Calif — Dr. Anthony Fauci took questions from California State University faculty on a range of topics, including when teachers could receive the new coronavirus vaccine.
Dr. Fauci said when he becomes a chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, he would push to vaccinate teachers as a priority.
"It's extremely important to get children back in school and kept in school and the idea of vaccinating teachers is very high up in the priority," Dr. Fauci said.
Dr. Fauci said essential workers could be vaccinated by spring if it all goes according to plan.
"By the time we get April, May, June, July, August, we can get the overwhelming majority of people in this country vaccinated," Dr. Fauci said.
Some school districts are considering in-classroom learning this winter. Dr. Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease doctor, said that if people stick to the vaccine rollout schedule, he's willing to predict when students could return to the classroom.
"By the time we get to the 2021-2022 term I think we could be in good shape," Dr. Fauci said. "So I am cautiously optimistic that we can do that and get back to some form of normality.”
UC Davis officials sent out a letter that they're optimistic they could return to pre-pandemic in-person learning for the Fall quarter of 2021.
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