The U.S. is making progress towards the end of the "full-blown" COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday as cases continue to fall.

With the omicron wave now waning, most of the country is either vaccinated or has contracted COVID-19, and that should provide enough protection for the pandemic to shift towards an endemic virus.

"I hope we are looking at a time when we have enough people vaccinated and enough people with protection from previous infection that the COVID restrictions will soon be a thing of the past," Fauci told The Financial Times.

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