Political Dog 101

Politics, News, Comments & Other Good Stuff....

Biden admin will to try to address the long term virus haul…

By

For the last two years the media has been featuring daily Covid case, Hospital and Death numbers….

They reflect several spikes in infections due to Covid Alpha , Delta and now Omicron strains …

The numbers ARE mind bending…

The fact is?

After the Omicron virus ?

There will be an other….

 

This does not mean that people should stop getting vaccines or wearing mask’s , or stop practicing social distance practices…

But?

The idea that getting shots, or booster shots will stop infections is running against increased infections this spike…

All the above has gotten the Biden admin attention for health AND POLITICAL reasons…

Republicans ARE trying to pin the negative virus media headlines in President Biden’s lap….

The Biden admin has begun to try to figure out how to sell Americans on the concept that we have to live with virus’s 

Biden’s people maybe working one trying deemphiziin virus case numbers since it is now evident that even people with shots are getting mild cases…

They will keep pushing shots and booster’s….

And ride this spike and hope it decreases as soon as possible…

But they ARE worried about the messaging to the public that is hurting their polling numbers….

 

Some of Biden’s advisers are encouraging the administration to begin discussing publicly how to live alongside a virus that shows no signs of disappearing, a potentially stark shift in messaging for a White House that once touted “freedom from the virus.”
Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only — as some Biden advisers have encouraged — could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic’s every up and down. It is a part of a growing conundrum that Biden faces as the Covid-19 pandemic refuses to abate.
“We’re getting to the point now where … it’s about severity,” said Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, in a meeting with reporters this week. “It’s not about cases. It’s about severity.”
Becerra said the issue recently arose during a meeting at the White House with Biden’s Covid response team. Other officials also said the issue of how to refocus the public away from total cases toward the severity of illness has been an ongoing subject of discussion within the administration.
“There’s a degree of difficulty that now comes in trying to decide what means it’s severe and what you have to do to stay out of that threshold of severity,” Becerra said. “But I think that’s where we’re heading, is to try to be able to tell the public that.”….

Recent Posts

Discover more from Political Dog 101

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading