(Bloomberg) — The US government is preparing to drastically reduce its role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic even as an explosion of cases in China is raising fresh concern about the virus w…
— The US government is preparing to drastically reduce its role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic even as an explosion of cases in China is raising fresh concern about the virus within the Biden administration.
China is likely experiencing 1 million COVID infections and 5,000 virus deaths every day in what is expected to be the biggest outbreak the world has seen, according to a new analysis from Airfinity Ltd., a London-based research firm.“We know that anytime the virus is spreading in the wild that it has the potential to mutate and to pose a threat to people everywhere,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a briefing on Monday.
“We’re surely making progress. Things are getting better,” he said. “COVID no longer controls our lives. Our kids are back in school. People are back to work.” “We don’t want this winter to look like last winter or the winter before, and it doesn’t have to,” Ashish Jha, the administration’s COVID czar, told reporters last week. “What’s different is that we have an updated vaccine that targets a version of the virus we’re fighting. But we need people to get that vaccine.”
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