Let us be tired: America had a terrible pandemic.
Yesterday the world’s No.1 superpower passed the coronary virus-related death toll of 500,000 people.
That’s 20 percent of global deaths, in a country with 4.25 percent of the world’s population.
It also means that the U.S. has now suffered more COVID victims than the total number of Americans who died on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.
These are all horrible statistics mentally, and I have no doubt where much of this blame should go: Donald Trump.
The recently ousted president has handled this crisis badly – refusing to take it seriously from the start when it exploded in February last year, evading science, giving the top medical experts a public shake-up his, and spraying dangerous theories of unproven ‘cure’.
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Dr Anthony Fauci, the US ‘s leading infectious disease expert, told CNN:’ You’re trying to identify the country ‘s push down and address the kinds of mitigation strategies we’ve put in place. out, and signs come in saying ‘this is not so bad, we’ I’m in good shape … ‘That didn’t help. ‘
This is the subdivision of the millennium.
He was a senior on how he should not treat a pandemic, and ashamed of Trump.
But he’s gone now, and President Joe Biden is the new man at the helm of his campaign whose main priority is to repair America’s COVID mess.
President Biden rightly paused for a moment to recognize the horrific 500,000 horrific death milestone from COVID-19 in America.
With his usual sympathy born of personal loss, Biden said: ‘Democrats and Republicans are not dying of the virus. They are our fellow Americans. Our neighbors, our friends, our mothers our fathers our sons our daughters, our husbands, our wives, we must fight this together as one people like the United States of America. ‘
Pictured is President Joe Biden Monday honoring the 500,000 Americans who have died from COVID
And it was right to give Americans hope in the future when he said: ‘This is not a story about how far we have fallen, but how far we will go back. Remember so we can heal. To find a reason in the work ahead. To show that there is light in the darkness. This nation laughs again. This country will know sunny days again. This country will know joy again. And as we will, we will remember all those we lost. The lives they lived. ‘
Biden’s natural ability to be the country’s Chief Comforter is both real and truly impressive.
But he is also the Prime Minister of the country and America is still at war with this deadly virus. It is a war that could define its own leadership.
The encouraging news is that deaths, hospitals and cases in the U.S. are all falling sharply, and Spring is coming with better weather that should help continue that trend. .
Lillie McCray (R) will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus infection (COVID-19) from Walgreens healthcare professor Ghassan Ayyad (L) at Victor Walchirk Buildings in Evanston, Illinois Monday
But as Dr Fauci warns: ‘We have to be very careful and not just say’ We’re done now, we’re through. ‘We have differences out there that could put us back. ‘
The best way to stop the virus is to significantly reduce the level of infection, and one of the best ways to do this is with the vaccines that have been proven to significantly reduce spread. as well as preventing death and serious illness.
So, America, like every other country in this pandemic, is in a race that it must win.
Simply put: the sooner it vaccinates its people, the better it will be possible to regain control of the virus, completely reopen the U.S. economy and put the rockets up and running back from the year this is devastating.
On the face of it, America is doing well with the spread of the vaccine.
The CDC says 75.2 million doses have been dispensed so far in the U.S. and 64.1 million administered – the highest numbers of any country in the world.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will take part in a moment of silence at a reception at the White House on Monday to honor the 500,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19
But if you get into the relatively more detailed figs, a less impressive picture will emerge.
The U.S. has given 19 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to every 100 people in the country who are well behind the current rate of the UK (27), the United Arab Emirates (56) and outgoing Israel ahead with 87 surprisingly good. .
So the big question for Biden is not how well he is doing but why the superpower of manufacturing technology like America is going so far behind these other countries, especially since both vaccines are agreed to date made entirely (Moderna) or in part (Pfizer) within the US?
The answer lies with the British vaccine.
On February 15, the World Health Organization listed the AstraZeneca vaccine developed in Oxford, England as an emergency use and declared it safe to use.
It was already agreed in the UK on 30 December last year, and in the European Union last month.
But there is no agreement yet for its use in the U.S., and no story has been agreed anytime soon, which goes against any reasonable logic.
It is true that an early clinical trial was built that raised some initial concerns but those were soon mitigated by other findings.
And it’s also true that it may only be as effective against some of the new versions of COVID currently circulating including the one from South Africa.
But there is no doubt that one thing is important: like the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, it is extremely effective in preventing serious disease or death.
No one who has received the AstraZeneca vaccine so far has died from COVID.
And it is much easier to store than the other two because they do not need to be kept in cold weather.
So the U.S. should step down to add the AstraZeneca injection to their vaccine weapon, but it is still working its way through other FDA – led trials completely useless.
The UK has proven that this is a safe, easy – to – use vaccine, much cheaper to produce than its competitors, and very effective even after just one dose.
In fact, it may be even better than Pfizer injection.
A new lawsuit reported yesterday in Scotland showed that 28 to 34 days after the first outbreak of the AstraZeneca vaccine reduced the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization by around 94 per cent compared to 85 per cent. for the Pfizer vaccine.
300 million doses of AstraZeneca in America are on order ready to go.
Therefore, my urgent advice to President Biden is to get ahead and use the harmful things.
Especially because the distribution of the vaccine in the US has received a sudden blow.
The 7-day follow-up average for daily vaccine doses administered hit a high of 1.7 million on February 16th. But that number has steadily dropped back to 1.4 million yesterday.
One of the reasons cited for this fall is supply issues, which again raises the question: why isn’t the US using the AstraZeneca vaccine as well?
It’s just not good enough for Biden’s administration to allow any kind of omission like this on such an urgent release.
The President has declared five days of mourning for the 500,000 victims of COVID.
Florida resident receives vaccine at drive-thru site at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando on Monday
I am sure that the families of those who have died greatly appreciate this long period of reflection.
But Biden should resist the temptation to constantly look back on the horrific damage President Trump did in this crisis because it is a waste of his time and energy.
We all know how bad it was. The deaths speak for themselves.
Instead, Biden should focus all his attention and effort on making sure as many Americans get the vaccine as soon as possible.
To achieve this, it should immediately request the AstraZeneca vaccine to be approved for emergency use in the United States.
If it is safe enough for the WHO, then is it safe enough for the US?
Or the President of the United States may continue to look at the UK’s lump in America on vaccine distribution, and that’s not a place the U.S. president should ever want to find himself.