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, seems to be what they are saying. Dr. Ashish K. Jha, White House, Covid-19 coordinator https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/27/world/covid-19-mandates-vaccine-cases The new White House Covid czar says avoiding all virus infections isn’t the goal of U.S. pandemic policy. Relatively low number of new deaths, but still too high Hospitalizations, lowest point in the pandemic Rising number of cases, a promising inflection With such a contagious virus spreading, hard to ensure that no one gets Covid in America That’s not even a policy goal The goal of our policy should be: obviously minimize infections whenever possible, but to make sure people don’t get seriously ill we are going to see cases go up and go down during this pandemic as we head into the weeks, months and years ahead The more important reflections of progress, health care system strain, whether people are hospitalized with and dying from Covid-19 Paxlovid, push to reach the vulnerable Doctors are too hesitant to prescribe the drug https://www.fda.gov/media/155051/download There are some people in this country who sometimes think that we can take a domestic-only approach to a global pandemic That’s not a thing. You can’t do that Increased contagion https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions BA.2 68.1% BA.2.12.1 28.7% Dr. Janet Woodcock, FDA It’s hard to process what’s actually happening right now, which is, most people are going to get Covid What we need to do is make sure the hospitals can still function, transportation, other essential services are not disrupted while this happens England, 10 January and 3 February 2022 New antibody saliva test https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2022/nearly-all-secondary-school-pupils-estimated-have-antibodies-against-covid-19 97% of secondary school pupils tested positive 46% vaccinated and tested positive for antibodies 51% unvaccinated and tested positive for antibodies China https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/30/beijing-bans-restaurant-dining-as-holiday-begins-in-zero-covid-clampdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5J1jYxYPJY Beijing Cases, + 54 ban dining-in negative Covid tests to visit public spaces Labour Day holiday. Prepared 4,000 temporary hospital beds Shanghai Cases, + 10,700 New cases, among quarantined or restricted groups Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices