“It is really important that we convey that success does not equal no cases,” U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told POLITICO. “Success looks like very few people in the hospital and very few dying.”
, and that she should have linked mask guidance more closely to local vaccination rates. But Walensky wanted to encourage vaccination — and going mask-free was seen as a lure for the hesitant.
Part of what we’ll need to do is assess the unevenness around us. Hotspots will come and go all across the country, and we’ll need to keep track. For public health, maintaining that equilibrium means maintaining testing capacity, data collection, contact tracing and genomic surveillance. Generally, those tools, though still imperfect, are far stronger now than they were in the early months of the pandemic under the Trump administration. The Centers for Disease Control won plaudits recently for kicking it all up a level by creating the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, staffed by some of the nation’s top experts.
Delta is more dangerous to kids than prior versions of the coronavirus, and kids who aren’t old enough to be vaccinated may also spread it. So schools are going to be a flashpoint. In fact, schools already are a flashpoint, as shown by the legal and political wars over mask mandates, in some cases driven by Republican governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis with presidential aspirations. More battles are likely as school systems try to enforce — or forego — quarantines when cases are detected.
That new CDC analytics center should be able to track new variants, making it less likely that an Epsilon or Zeta will clobber us as hard as Delta has.
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