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Yahoo News: 'President Biden absolutely declared a victory too soon,' Leana Wen says
“I am hopeful as I look to the future,” Dr. Leana Wen writes in her new book, “Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health.” On the day she spoke to Yahoo News, however, case counts were spiking across the United States, due almost entirely to the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant. Masks were back. So were concerns that schools might reopen in the fall.
A former Baltimore public health commissioner who now teaches emergency medicine at George Washington University, Wen has become a prominent commentator on the coronavirus pandemic. Below, she offers thoughts on how to navigate the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic, as the nation grapples with the Delta variant, students prepare to return to school and President Biden struggles to maintain momentum against the pandemic.
Yahoo News: Did we declare victory too soon?
Leana Wen: The single biggest mistake that the Biden administration made during this entire pandemic response — and I would argue in the entire Biden presidency — was back in May when the CDC said that vaccinated people can take off their mask, but did not have proof of vaccination attached to it. And as a result, people understood the pandemic to be over them. The unvaccinated began behaving like they were vaccinated.
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WNU Editor: I have mentioned this before on this blog. The messaging from the Biden White House on Covid has been a mess. But instead of blaming themselves, they are now blaming the media .... White House frustrated with 'hyperbolic' and 'irresponsible' Delta variant coverage, sources say (CNN) and Republicans .... Who Is Not Taking The Vaccine In The U.S.? (July 31, 2021).
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