It's too soon to say whether the pandemic has eased enough for families to gather for Christmas this year, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. Fauci, making the Sunday talk show rounds, said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" that Americans first need to focus on lowering the number of new infections and hospitalizations. The best way to do that: Vaccination and booster shots, he said. "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." Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Fauci noted that coronavirus-related hospital admissions and average daily new cases have dropped by more than 30% over the last month. "We certainly are turning the corner on this particular surge," Fauci said. "But we have experienced over now close to 20 months surges that go up and then come down, and then go back up again." 📸: Paula Bronstein, @apnews