Florida alone accounts for more coronavirus cases than the 30 states with the lowest infection rates combined, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients said Thursday.
earlier this week that if the current surge continues, “there is no way my hospital is going to be able to handle this.”was especially dire, with that state alone accounting for more cases than the 30 states with the lowest infection rates combined. Public health officials have called the new coronavirus surge, driven by the hypercontagious Delta variant, a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
Texas and Florida both have vaccination rates that are far too low to halt community transmission of the virus. For that to occur, someA health care worker administers a COVID-19 swab test at a testing site in Miami. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are both conservative Republicans with presidential ambitions. As such, they have little incentive to work with the Biden administration, as Trump loyalists would almost certainly repudiate them for doing so.
But the governors’ resistance to imposing new restrictions of any kind poses a significant public health risk. Neither has made vaccination a requirement for state employees, and they have resisted mask mandates imposed by local school districts. The White House hasOn Thursday, President Biden began what were to be prepared remarks on prescription drug pricing by thanking educators and local elected leaders who stand up to governors banning new precautions.
“What Gov. Cuomo did was awful, and resigning was appropriate, but what governors Abbott of Texas and DeSantis of Florida have done/are doing is far worse: harming democracy, worsening a public health crisis, stirring up hatred of others,”
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