Coronavirus: Thread

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https://www.change.org/p/gavin-newsom-post-omicron-pivot-for-california-public-schools


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/15/omicron-covid-joe-biden-administration

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-biden-donald-trump-1661528


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-members-stay-job-82184760
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/07/hospitalization-covid-statistics-incidental/
https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-will-extend-statewide-mask-mandate-feb-10-hochul-says
https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/court-to-hear-virginia-school-boards-challenge-to-youngkins-mask-optional-order/
https://www.wpbf.com/article/despite-supreme-court-ruling-some-companies-are-keeping-vaccine-mandates-in-place/38897045
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.