In the United States, 400 to 500 people still die each day from the disease, but President Biden said in an interview broadcast last night that the COVID-19 (coronavirus 2019) outbreak in the United States is over, and public health experts and mainstream media will recover immediately today, it is too early to think that Biden’s remarks are inadequate.
Biden said in an interview broadcast on CBS on the 18th: “The epidemic is over. Even though we are still addressing the COVID issue, we are still working hard on it … But the epidemic is over. You can notice, Nobody wears a mask. Everyone seems to be fine. “
The New York Times reported that many infected patients believed Biden was simply numb and some public health experts said Biden’s speech was contrary to science. Dr Michael T. Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, said, “The United States has reported 2 million cases in the past 28 days and everyone knows that underreporting is actually very serious. COVID-19 remains the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. “
The White House softened Biden’s cheeks today, saying Biden was just voicing the voices of many Americans and his consistent stance in the past that the United States has enough vaccines and treatments to fight COVID-19 and for the most part. of people a diagnosis is no longer the same Sentenced to death.
However, the New York Times believes that the epidemic is over or not, what the president says and how ordinary people feel are two different things. After all, the president’s announcement has political implications. However, after Biden finished speaking, epidemic prevention measures remained unchanged. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said the public health emergency that granted the government’s response to COVID-19 remains in effect.
Public health experts believe the World Health Organization (WHO), not Biden, has the authority to declare an end to the epidemic. Osterholm said the data showed that the outbreak in the United States was still at a standstill. Additionally, Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease expert at Emory University in Atlanta, said, “We still have 400 to 500 deaths a day from the disease, which is too high to say the epidemic is over. ‘”.
The Washington Post also retorted with an editorial “No, President Biden, the epidemic is not over,” arguing that Biden’s remarks are nothing more than a focus on mid-term elections, and the American people have long been overwhelmed by the exhaustion of the epidemic. The China Post editorial cited figures to show that the outbreak isn’t really over. The 7-day average in the United States is still more than 400 people infected with the disease in a single day, which has remained at this level since April; the average number of new confirmed cases in a single day is still 60,000, higher than in the spring.
COVID-19 also reduced the average American life expectancy in 2020 and 2021, the fastest two-year decline in a century, not to mention the millions of people recovering from the aftermath of the new crown. The editorial also believes that the most serious inadequacy of Biden’s remarks may be to further weaken Congress’s political determination to maintain epidemic prevention.
(Editor in chief: Zhuang Yanyu)
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