In the United States, 400 to 500 people still die from the disease every day, but President Biden said in an interview broadcast last night that the COVID-19 (coronavirus 2019) epidemic in the United States has ended, and public health experts and mainstream media will immediately rebound today. It is too early to think that Biden’s remarks are inappropriate.
Biden said in an interview broadcast on CBS on the 18th: “The epidemic is over. Although we are still facing the problem of COVID, we are still working hard on it… But the epidemic is over. You can notice, No one is wearing a mask. Everyone seems to be doing fine.”
The “New York Times” reported that many infected patients felt that Biden was simply insensitive, and some public health experts said that 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 that Biden was just expressing the voices of many American people and his consistent position in the past that the United States has sufficient vaccines and treatments to fight against COVID-19, and for most people a diagnosis is no longer the same. Sentenced to death.
However, the New York Times believes that whether 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 policy implications. However, after Biden finished speaking, the 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 that the World Health Organization (WHO), not Biden, has the authority to declare the end of the epidemic. Osterholm said the data showed the U.S. outbreak was still at a plateau. In addition, 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 that the epidemic is over. a bit.”
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 focusing on the midterm elections, and the American people have long been overwhelmed by the exhaustion of the epidemic. The China Post editorial cited figures to prove that the epidemic is indeed not 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 has 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 who are recovering from the aftermath of the new crown. The editorial also believes that the most serious inappropriateness of Biden’s remarks may be to further weaken the political determination of Congress to maintain epidemic prevention.
(Editor-in-Chief: Zhuang Yanyu)
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