Some medical experts close to the White House argue that the time has come for a new approach to the pandemic—one that sets aside the campaign for eradication in favor of living with the disease.
On Thursday, six medical experts close to the White House published three op-eds in the—one that sets aside the campaign for eradication in favor of living with the disease.-19, one op-ed argued, should no longer even be tracked on its own but monitored together with other respiratory viruses, such as the flu—the sort of thing that might be done by epidemiologists rather than by all of us refreshing graphs on theWeb site day and night.
During this pandemic, Fauci has often been tasked with explaining things that are in tension with one another. Right now, the tension is temporal, between a present in which the number of deaths remains intolerably high—on average, about fourteen hundred per day—and a likely, but not certain, near future in which the emergency has retreated, even if the disease remains. “Let me give you a confounding issue, which I find really interesting,” Fauci said.
Much of the White House’s energy—and some controversy—has focussed on supplying those tools. Dawn O’Connell, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, told me that the initial question the government had to answer was whether the existing vaccines and therapeutics would hold up against the new variant. Fortunately, she went on, scientists found that they mostly did.
During this in-between phase, much has been made of the signalling in Fauci’s statements. When, just before Christmas, he floated the idea that isolation procedures might get shorter in some cases, it was met with general confusion. In the media environment of an earlier generation, that sort of sotto-voce remark was a good way to float a trial balloon to insiders. But now everyone sees the trial balloon at once.
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