"White House disbanding its covid-19 team in May" wapo (gift article)

[orleans]

Ashish Jha is likely to depart as pandemic that engulfed Biden’s early presidency takes a lower profile

The White House will shut down its covid response team after the public health emergency ends in May, with some staffers already departing and national coordinator Ashish Jha likely to leave the administration once his team is disbanded, according to multiple current and former officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal operations.

The move to disband the White House covid team, created in February 2020 and expanded to about three dozen staffers under President Biden, comes as the pandemic has receded from U.S. hospitals and in voters’ minds. The nation avoided a feared winter surge of virus deaths earlier this year, and while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still links about 2,000 deaths per week to covid, that represents the lowest death toll since the earliest days of the pandemic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/22/biden-disband-covid-team/

gifted link:
https://wapo.st/3lxYA3x


i'm sorry--i am so disgusted by this, and the fact that i am agreeing with the scarf lady!!! that i only copied the 2 paragraphs. if you want to read it go ahead.
hooray! only 2,000 people die from it a week! YAY! THE NIGHTMARE IS OVER!!


(by the way, i am being turned down getting another bivalent boost; i had it in september & b/c cdc isn't recommending a second one walgreens won't give me one. they said to check back after it's been 8 months instead of 6)

[RockRaven]

1. Half of the political class of this country is giving up fighting with the other half, trolls, who

themselves are cynically pandering to the minority of voters in this country -- who are LOUD oppositional-defiant children in adult form. And because the majority of American voters are a combination of sleepwalkers and fussy babies, there is insufficient pushback on this capitulation.

[Tetrachloride]

2. At least 1 of my family continues with some strong isolation measures

No word on any of the others, as my contact is limited.