U.S. Expert: Biden Administration 'Misses Opportunity to Limit Infection Time and Time Again'

According to the real-time statistics system of global new crown pneumonia data released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 6 p.m. Eastern Time on January 15, 2022, a total of 65342285 confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia and 849971 deaths have been reported in the United States. In the past 24 hours, the United States has confirmed 670352 new cases and 1159 new deaths.

On January 13, health care workers sampled testers at a COVID-19 testing site in Washington, D.C., usa. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Shen Ting)

The New York Times reported that senior White House officials said on the 14th that starting from the 19th, Americans can apply to the federal government for a free rapid test kit for the new coronavirus on a website. However, these kits take 7 to 12 days to be mailed. Due to order delays and shipping delays, people may not receive a free rapid test kit until the end of January at the earliest, when parts of the United States may have already weathered the peak of the surge in cases.

Steven Strasher, a professor at Northwestern University, said in an article on the Guardian website that the Biden administration had "failed" in the face of the test of the new crown, and that "the White House claimed to follow the science, but it missed the opportunity to limit infection again and again, and the result was disastrous." He said Democrats across the country adopted a "vaccination-only" strategy when the virus spread on a large scale in the community. Covid-19 vaccines are best used in conjunction with other anti-epidemic measures, such as ventilation, mask wearing, isolation and, if necessary, lockdowns to minimize people's exposure to the virus. The United States broke the record of 1.35 million new confirmed cases in a single day, "not to mention those cases that were not reported."

Author: Li Zhiwei

Source: People's Daily client