Though they remain highly politicized, masks are also highly effective at removing Delta’s primary advantage: its heightened transmissibility. Despite reports of rare breakthrough infections, COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe illness and death.Īs she has before, Psaki said that the Biden administration “had been preparing like Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts for this moment.” Delta does move quickly, and some believe the current spike could subside within a matter of weeks. states that implemented SIP policies earlier, and in which SIP policies had longer to operate, had lower excess deaths. Action has been ramped up in recent weeks after New York. Still, the Biden administration insists that it is not alarmed, even as it takes increasingly aggressive measures to pressure holdouts to get vaccinated. Mr Trump began advising citizens at the end of last month to stay home, and by the end of March, 32 out of 50 states had locked down. The burdens of remote learning are thought to have fallen primarily on women, who left the workforce in much greater numbers than men. That could also cripple the economic recovery, forcing parents to reorient work schedules in order to monitor how their children, younger ones in particular, learn online. (Marta Lavandier/AP)Īnd there are renewed concerns that schools could revert to remote instruction, especially in states where governors have forbidden masks in schools.
Passengers wait to get a COVID-19 test to travel overseas at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Even though Delta’s arrival in the United States was not unexpected - the strain had been circulating throughout India and the United Kingdom during the winter and spring - it appeared to land with a greater force than expected, quickly exploiting low-vaccination areas of the nation, including the Midwest and the Southeast. The more transmissible Delta variant has frustrated the White House, leading to questions about whether Biden was premature in declaring “independence” from the coronavirus last month. The economic recovery began under then-President Donald Trump, but Biden has made a more thorough return to normalcy a centerpiece of his presidency. The unemployment rate today stands at 5.4 percent when the pandemic first struck and businesses closed, that rate rose to 14.8 percent in April 2020. A total of 193 million Americans have had at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine (two of the three vaccines approved in the United States require two doses), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)Ĭoronavirus vaccines were becoming widely available around the time Biden assumed office. White House press secretary Jen Psaki at the White House on Wednesday.
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