Biden and Fauci Botched the Covid Pandemic Response
Instead of protecting the vulnerable, they bet too heavily on vaccines to achieve herd immunity.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-fauci-botched-the-covid-response-infection-vaccine-paxlovid-testing-11657211031
There are many lessons to be learned from the US response to the pandemic. House Democrats are not interested in studying them.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a deeply partisan report last month demonizing doctors who allegedly advocate “a dangerous and discredited herd immunity through mass infection strategy.”
The report was aimed at the Trump administration’s adoption of the Great Barrington Declaration of October 2020, in which epidemiologists Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), Sunetra Gupta (Oxford) and Jay Bhattacharya
(Stanford) advocated protecting the elderly and vulnerable protect while reopening schools and businesses. This was not a strategy to intentionally infect masses of people. The goal was to minimize deaths and social and economic damage until the country achieved herd immunity through infection
or vaccination.
Great Barrington’s strategy of “focused protection” helped minimize the collateral damage of the pandemic until vaccines became available. The
Biden administration then pursued a strategy of herd immunity through vaccination. But when that strategy failed, it doubled down on vaccine mandates.
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