International online article: Recently, the worsening of the epidemic in many European countries and the spread of new variants of the new coronavirus around the world have caused the American people to worry about the rebound of the winter epidemic. A number of foreign media have successively issued articles to sharpen the current epidemic prevention measures in the United States, saying that the United States is "not prepared" for a possible new round of epidemic, and American netizens angrily criticized the Biden administration on social media for being "rotten" and "indifferent".
Screenshot of U.S. News & World Report report
According to "U.S. News and World Report" on the 20th, the United States is currently dealing with 8 Omicron variant strains at the same time, facing the risk of a new round of new coronary pneumonia outbreak this winter.
The report pointed out that the number of confirmed new crown cases in the United States has decreased in recent days, but the number of infections has been seriously underestimated due to factors such as home testing. According to the report, new strains such as BQ.1.1 deserve attention, on the one hand, it is more contagious and can spread quickly among people, on the other hand, it can disable the effect of certain drugs.
The report stressed that so far, the progress of the new crown vaccine booster among the American people has been slow, which is worrying. Until most people are fully vaccinated, the decline in herd immunity levels and the coming cold weather are likely to trigger another wave of coronavirus infections.
Screenshot of the US "Time" report
Time magazine published an opinion piece entitled "The third winter under the new crown epidemic is coming, the United States is not ready" on October 20, which pointed out that in the coming months, students returning to school, temperature drops, people's social activities moving indoors, holiday travel, and the continuous mutation of the new crown strain, all factors have combined to foresee a surge in seasonal new crown infections and deaths in the United States (winter).
The article writes that basic epidemic prevention preparations such as sufficient masks, test kits, and clear and feasible response plans are all not in place: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not issued the latest epidemic prevention guidelines to the public, and announced in mid-October that it will no longer provide free N95 masks to the public; Previously, due to funding problems, the Biden administration also said that it would no longer provide new crown test kits for free. The authors of the article believe that as the end of the year approaches, if the US government does not allocate funds to protect these epidemic prevention necessities, the United States may face a dark period of the winter pandemic.
The article said that the US government has recently taken the new crown vaccine booster shot as a good way to control the new crown epidemic, but due to some factors, the new crown vaccination rate in the United States is at a low point in the past two years. In the future, when there is a surge in coronavirus deaths, the government can blame it on the unvaccinated population. But in fact, controlling the new crown epidemic should start with multifaceted epidemic prevention measures.
Earlier this year, the Biden administration also warned that 100 million people in the United States could be infected with the new coronavirus this fall and winter. But the government is now making less and less mention of coronavirus deaths in the United States, even though hundreds of people are still dying every day. Last month, Biden also announced that the epidemic in the United States "has ended" due to political considerations, misleading the American people to relax their vigilance against the epidemic. The article emphasizes that the Biden administration's failed epidemic prevention measures will continue to threaten the lives and health of the American people.
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The local channel Fox5 Atlanta website of the Fox News Network reported on the 19th that the surge in new coronary pneumonia cases in Europe sounded the alarm for the United States. The drop in temperature has raised concerns about the accelerated spread of the new coronavirus, and the threat posed by more contagious variants is growing. Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that infection rates with the Omicron variant branch in the United States have been rising over the past few weeks. The article said that this is caused by the lax epidemic prevention policy of the United States.
Screenshot of a CNBC report
The opinion piece released by the US Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) on the 19th wrote that the Biden administration is informing the medical insurance party that it is ready to respond to the lifting of the public health emergency (expected to be lifted in January next year). The change will have a significant impact on the groups covered by health insurance in the U.S. Medicaid program.
The article pointed out that the public health emergency has played an important role in the response to the outbreak, and once it is lifted, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates that as many as 15 million people will be disqualified from Medicare and children's health insurance programs. Experts fear that millions of families will face hunger, a severe shortage of health care workers and a much harder time getting vaccines from pharmacies. Lawrence Gostin, a health law expert at Georgetown University, said: "If you're going to end this, you have to honestly inform Americans in a transparent way about their gains and losses." ”
American netizens have also expressed their dissatisfaction on overseas social media platforms, criticizing the government's ineffective epidemic prevention:
It's heartwarming that American politicians worry that we won't be able to return to freedom, but more than 1 million American citizens have died from the coronavirus and will never be able to regain their freedom.
In May, they (the U.S. government) knew that a new peak of the pandemic was coming... And they chose to swing rotten. They chose to remain indifferent, chose to downplay the past to the public, and chose not to pass the relevant appropriations (for epidemic prevention and control)!
Putting politics and capitalism ahead of public health = the third wave of the pandemic. May God have mercy!
—Does Biden believe that there are new crown sequelae?
—"Does Biden know that there are new crown sequelae", it may be more appropriate to ask.
They seem to have adopted a similar mindset to the school shootings as they did with the coronavirus pandemic: just live with it. Condolences and best wishes to all of you.
Joe Biden will forever be remembered in history as "the president who failed to protect the American people during the coronavirus pandemic." (Wang Luping, Ren Lijun, Shi Heyi)