Where we are in the COVID pandemic depends on how you view it. And two of President Biden's top COVID advisers are looking at the same data and coming away from it with different conclusions as if the data were an ink blot test.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walnensky, who last week said she had a sense of impending doom as signs of a fourth surge in COVID cases started up, said a few days ago that vaccinated people can't get or spread COVID based on the available data but then walked it back ("walked it back" - I'm beginning to detest that saying) by suggesting, well, maybe you can get and spread the virus even if you've been vaccinated. "The evidence isn’t clear whether they can spread the virus to others," she said. "We are continuing to evaluate the evidence."
And how many vaccine-hesitant Americans won't bother to get vaccinated if they think they'll get COVID one way or another?
Dr. Anthony Fauci, however, has a slightly different - and more optismtic - view. He doesn't deny that a fourth COVID surge is very possible. But he does believe that a fourth surge can be blunted very effectively, citing the fact that four million people received vaccinates on the day before Easter and noting that more vaccinations are to come. He assured CNN's Jim Acosta that this pandemic is not going to last forever and that a return to life as we knew it or something like it is imminent. He seems to suggest that once enough of us are vaccinated, the general population will be impregnable from a SARS CoV-2 mass infection.
I hope he's right, because if he's not, it won't just be the rabbit that dies. 😱
Maybe not a good expression to use on this Easter Monday . . . 😢
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