https://www.change.org/p/gavin-newsom-post-omicron-pivot-for-california-publ... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/15/omicron-covid-joe-biden-admi... Biden administration pledged to let scientists and public health experts drive its pandemic strategy. “The Biden administration has failed its COVID test,” "conservatives argue that Biden, whose flagging poll numbers are hurting Democratic prospects in November’s midterms, is shifting his rhetoric only in an attempt to convey a sense of control and calm ahead of those elections" When Biden took office, his plan to stop the virus relied heavily on increasing vaccinations, safely reopening schools, and pushing stimulus bills to help states and local officials battle the pandemic." Critics and supporters alike argue the administration’s laser focus on vaccinations, including forcing people to get shots through mandates, came at the expense of producing and distributing more tests and therapeutics. “They frankly focused on the vaccine – the vaccine did not end up being as extinguishing as we had hoped … and so they went ahead and added the booster,” Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told RealClearPolitics. But, “the national emergency [declaration] is a much different framework than most people assume,” Wiley added The emergency declaration, coupled with the public health emergency pronouncement issued by the Department of Health & Human Services, gives the federal government ... tools to remove... [the constitution and more freedom]. Biden’s comments to U.S. governors in early January that there is “no federal solution” to the disease. The number of deaths during the first year of Biden's presidency were similar to the first year of the pandemic under Trump, despite having the vaccine in place. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-have-more-americans-died-covid-under-joe... Lindsay F. Wiley, a health law professor at UCLA, said recent missteps by the CDC have once again damaged public trust and reinforced public perception that the administration’s guidance is “pretty chaotic.” “There’s confusion after the CDC changes its guidance, and [it] has not always provided a robust explanation or justification for that change,” she told RCP, noting the back-and-forth on mask guidance and more recent changes governing isolation and quarantine Biden+Democrats: An utter, all-in net-damaging, and needless policy failure. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-hospitals-letting-infected-staff-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/07/hospitalization-covid-stat... https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-will-extend-statewide-mask-mandate-feb-1... https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/court-to-hear-virginia-school-boards... https://www.wpbf.com/article/despite-supreme-court-ruling-some-companies-are... https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/2022/01/14/61e1b056e2704efe128b459c.html It’s a disjointed patchwork of conflicting health policies and local responses, reflecting the lack of national consensus “When you have over 2,000 deaths, 150,000 hospitalizations, and you have people getting infected to the tune of somewhere around 700,000 a day, we’re not there yet,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said last week. Fauci, the national COVID icon reviled on the right while beloved on the left, then unveiled a worst-case scenario prediction for 2022: that there could be a new variant that evades vaccines and natural immunity. “I hope that’s not the case,” he said flatly.