Thursday's briefing, which featured some familiar faces minus President Donald Trump and adviser Scott Atlas, highlighted the impressive dented spread of the coronavirus in the US, with officials urging Americans to stay vigilant until the vaccine arrives.

Dr.

Deborah Berks that this is MAWR cases more rapidly than what we had seen before.

We're asking every American to remain vigilant to do those things that we have been asking you all to do to wear a mask to physically distance the continue your hand hygiene.

But really, in this moment of bringing people together to really limit interactions endures to immediate households.

Dr.

Anthony Fauci, back at the lectern after being sidelined by the White House, said that the recent good news on vaccine development suggested they will be a major tool against the virus.

As the death toll raced past the quarter million lives in the US alone.

About seven or eight months ago, I start, I stood at this exact spot at a time when there was really an extraordinary surge in cases in the northeastern part of the country.

However, I also said, if some of you can remember that there's an opposing force to that and that opposing force is us.

But there's another opposing force to that, and that's the vaccine.

Vice President Mike Pence stressed that the country would move quickly once vaccines were approved.

We have a system in place to begin within 24 hours, shipping that vaccines, toe hospitals, health care facilities and 24 hours after that, literally injecting that vaccine into Americans.

On the same day, New York public schools went back toe all remote, learning 500 director Robert Redfield recommended against closing schools K through 12.

Schools can operate with face to face learning, and they can do it safely, and they can do it responsibly.

Echoing this, Fauci said the way to avoid lockdowns was toe follow health protocols.

We're not talking about shutting down the country.

We're not talking about locking down.

We're talking about intensifying the simple public health measures that we all talk about.