Is he getting ahead of himself?
He wanted to celebrate….
Cases, hospitalisation’s and deaths have dived down in numbers….
But?
Virus shots are not gonna be anywhere near the 70% Biden thought in few days…
There is NEVER gonna be a 100%…
Around my way?
People still wear masks indoors. and lot even outdoors..
But on TV I see images of masses of people at sports events close together maskless…
The economy is the goal now for politicians and government officials…
But with the fall?
Viruses always remerge ….
President Biden’s plan to celebrate “independence from the virus” on the Fourth of July is running into an unpleasant reality: Less than half the country is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, and the highly contagious Delta variant is threatening new outbreaks.
The president and Jill Biden, the first lady, have invited 1,000 military personnel and essential workers to an Independence Day bash on the South Lawn of the White House. Mr. Biden and his advisers, eager to claim credit for the virus’ retreat in the United States, are talking about a “summer of joy and freedom.”
Mr. Biden will visit Traverse City, Mich., on Saturday as part of what the White House calls the “America’s Back Together” celebration. Dr. Biden will also take to the road, as will Vice President Kamala Harris, her husband, Doug Emhoff, and various cabinet officials who will attend festivals, parades and cookouts around the nation.
But public health experts fear that scenes of cross-country celebrations — including a White House party with a liberation theme — will send the wrong message when wide swaths of the population remain vulnerable and true independence from the worst public health crisis in a century may be a long way off.
“We’re still in the middle of this marathon,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University. Despite considerable progress in decreasing the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the United States over the past few months, he said, it remains too early to “unfurl the ‘mission accomplished’ banner.”
Suggesting that the country is moving past the pandemic is a delicate task for Mr. Biden and his fellow Democrats, who must balance caution with bolstering the economy and getting national morale back on track.
The Democratic National Committee this week released an upbeat ad entitled “America’s Coming Back.” Its spokeswoman wrote on Twitter that the “America’s Back” mobile — a bus with the president’s image on it — would be traveling the country and offering free Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, a gourmet brand favored by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The blowback was swift. “Need to rename this the ‘USS Tone Deaf McCovid Mobile,’” a Twitter user wrote….
Add this to the vaccine story….
…CDC data shows that as of June 16, nearly 11 percent of people who had sufficient time to get the second dose missed their ideal window. The number has increased from 8 percent earlier in the year, but CDC spokesperson Kate Fowlie said the rise was “not unexpected.”
The second shot is recommended three weeks after the first Pfizer-BioNTech shot or four weeks after the first Moderna shot. Second doses were considered missed if more than 42 days had passed since the initial jab.
[Why you shouldn’t skip your second dose of the coronavirus vaccine]
Health officials have explained that people — in this case, nearly 15 million people — skip their second shots for a variety of reasons, such as mistakenly believing that they only need one dose to be protected. Some people also want to avoid the sometimes-unpleasant side effects that come with the second dose, and others simply miss their second appointment and can’t or don’t reschedule….
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