Follow up: “Biden Declares Success in Beating Pandemic in July 4 Speech”
July 4, 2021: A triumphant President Joe Biden all but announced an end to the pandemic in the U.S. on Sunday, celebrating what he called a “heroic” vaccination campaign on…
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July 4, 2021: A triumphant President Joe Biden all but announced an end to the pandemic in the U.S. on Sunday, celebrating what he called a “heroic” vaccination campaign on…
But as real-world data came in from places other than China the excuses for poor decisions become thinner, and the ceding of public policy choices to public health officials becomes…
This might not be the improvement you think it is: Some estimate recent Covid variants have an R-0 value of up to 18 to 20, meaning that for each person…
If only we had been more like China, we would have crushed this in just two weeks ... China stops publishing daily Covid case count numbers.
China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says. Source: As Cases Explode, China’s…
In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments…