The White House unveiled a new pandemic road map on Wednesday that calls for continuing the fight against COVID-19 without disrupting people’s lives with school or business closures
The White House unveiled a new pandemic road map on Wednesday that calls for continuing the fight against covid-19 without disrupting people’s lives with school or business closures.
Biden and his administration said they are “clear-eyed that new variants might arise,” but that they have prepared for such a scenario by amassing vaccine doses, antivirals, masks and tests. The White House worked to acknowledge that toll while heralding a new future in which Americans could be assured that the era of lockdowns was over and that the administration is prepared in the event of another variant.
Administration officials and some experts say the country has entered a new, less dangerous phase of the pandemic where most of those who become infected will not end up hospitalized because of wide access to vaccines, booster shots, testing and new therapeutics - making covid-19 gradually less lethal until it comes to resemble other respiratory viruses such as the flu.
In the intervening weeks, the former advisers and about two-dozen other outside experts have met regularly with the White House, talking through new initiatives to fight the virus, according to two people who contributed to the plan. “We need to be prepared for our new normal, or another new surge,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and a member of Biden’s covid-19 transition task force. “We’ve got to do both.”
And new CDC recommendations released Friday mean about 70% of Americans can take their masks off indoors, based on current hospital data and case counts, though the guidelines came weeks after many states already took steps to ease restrictions. Lucas said that there are political consequences to pushing restrictions the public views as unnecessary.
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