Fauci told CBS "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan that it was "just too soon to tell" if Americans would need to curb the size and scope of their holiday celebrations as was recommended last year.
"We've just got to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we're going to do at a particular time," Fauci said.
"Let's focus like a laser on continuing to get those cases down. And we can do it by people getting vaccinated and also in the situation where boosters are appropriate to get people boosted," he continued.
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Last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged Americans not to move for Christmas as cases were moving then-record highs.
“The best thing for Americans to do in the upcoming holiday season is to stay at home and not travel,” Henry Walke, then the CDC's COVID-19 incident manager at the time, said. “Cases are rising. Hospitalizations are increasing, deaths are increasing. We need to try to bend the curve, stop this exponential increase.”
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Michael Osterholm, a member of President Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board during his transition into office, said outright in December that "there is not a safe Christmas party in this country right now unless everybody for the previous 10-14 days were podded.”
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A year and a half ago, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine had become the first vaccine to be granted emergency use support, and administration was limited to high-risk individuals. As of Sunday, around 65 percent of the eligible U.S. population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, though the seven-day moving average for new cases is actually higher than it was at this time last year.
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At the start of October 2020, the seven-day moving average was around 43,000 according to CDC. Currently, the seven-day moving average is around 103,000. The average has been on a decline since peaking towards the end of August.
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CNN's Dana Bash had asked Fauci about a Kaiser Family Foundation poll that found 55 percent of Republicans and 40 percent of unvaccinated respondents blamed immigrants and tourists for bringing COVID-19 into the country and for the country's high case rates.
Republicans also ranked immigrants as the biggest factor impacting COVID-19 transmission.
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