White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he is “as confident as you can be” that most states in the U.S. will reach a peak in Omicron infections within the middle of next month. “You never want to be overconfident when you’re dealing with this virus,” Fauci said during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” “But if you look at the patterns that we’ve seen in South Africa, in the U.K. and in Israel and in the northeast and New England and upper midwest states, they have peaked and [are] starting to come down rather sharply,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said. “There are still some states in the southern states and western states that continue to go up.” If the pattern follows the downward trend seen in other places such as the Northeast, Fauci said, he believes the United States will start to see a …