US top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci on Thursday said that the general public by April can have the access to COVID-19 vaccines and the nation will be able to inoculate most Americans by the mid or the end of the summer. Fauci, while talking to NBC’s ‘Today’, said that he believes that the pace of immunisation against the COVID-19 disease in the US is going to pick up by March or April as more vaccine doses would be available by then. 

Fauci is “fairly certain” that by the end if April, pharmacies, community vaccine centres and mobile units will help pick up the pace of vaccination which would not be just for higher priority groups, reports CNN. 

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The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said that April would call for “open season,” as, he added, “Namely, virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated.” 

Earlier, Fauci has said, after assuming that 70% to 85% of the US population would be vaccinated by the end of summer, that Americans have a chance of living a more little more normally by early fall, reports CNN. 

The United States is the worst-hit nation globally by the COVID-19 pandemic with over 27 million coronavirus cases and more than 470,000 deaths due to the disease.

Recently, more US states are loosening the restrictions implemented due to the pandemic as the daily rise in cases are dropping, however, experts have warned that the nation is not in the clear as more transmissible variants of the virus are increasing across the country.