Fauci: Best way to avoid resurgence is getting more Americans vaccinated
Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN Monday night that "the best way to assure that decline in cases, hospitalizations and deaths [will] continue is to continue to get a lot more people vaccinated."
![PHOTO: Nurse Abbe Hildebrandt, left, gives a thumbs up to Holli Harris as nurse Sandra Young, right, administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to her husband Allen Harris at the Tennessee Riverpark, Sept. 28, 2021, in Chattanooga, Tenn.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/US/vaccination-tenn-ap-ps-211012_1634044477520_hpMain.jpg)
"We need the overwhelming proportion of those unvaccinated people to get vaccinated. Then we can be quite confident that if we can do that, you will not see a resurgence," Fauci said.
About 68 million eligible Americans remain completely unvaccinated.
Despite continued pushback, Fauci said that newly implemented vaccine mandates are working.
"Sometimes mandates can help. As sensitive an issue as that is, it is really getting people more vaccinated," Fauci said.
-ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos