, seems to be what they are saying. Dr. Ashish K. Jha, White House, Covid-19 coordinator
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/...

The new White House Covid czar says avoiding all virus infections isn’t the goal of U.S. pandemic policy.

Relatively low number of new deaths, but still too high

Hospitalizations, lowest point in the pandemic

Rising number of cases, a promising inflection

With such a contagious virus spreading, hard to ensure that no one gets Covid in America

That’s not even a policy goal

The goal of our policy should be: obviously minimize infections whenever possible, but to make sure people don’t get seriously ill

we are going to see cases go up and go down during this pandemic as we head into the weeks, months and years ahead

The more important reflections of progress, health care system strain,
whether people are hospitalized with and dying from Covid-19

Paxlovid, push to reach the vulnerable

Doctors are too hesitant to prescribe the drug

https://www.fda.gov/media/155051/down...

There are some people in this country who sometimes think that we can take a domestic-only approach to a global pandemic

That’s not a thing. You can’t do that

Increased contagion

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-trac...

BA.2 68.1%

BA.2.12.1 28.7%

Dr. Janet Woodcock, FDA

It’s hard to process what’s actually happening right now,

which is, most people are going to get Covid

What we need to do is make sure the hospitals can still function, transportation, other essential services are not disrupted while this happens

England, 10 January and 3 February 2022

New antibody saliva test

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/ne...

97% of secondary school pupils tested positive

46% vaccinated and tested positive for antibodies

51% unvaccinated and tested positive for antibodies

China

https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...

   • Shanghai residents bang pots and pans...  

Beijing

Cases, + 54

ban dining-in

negative Covid tests to visit public spaces

Labour Day holiday.

Prepared 4,000 temporary hospital beds

Shanghai

Cases, + 10,700

New cases, among quarantined or restricted groups