Atlantic May 15, 2022
The U.S. clearly failed to heed expert advice, but there’s plenty of blame to go around.
About the author: Jay Varma, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical School, is a physician and epidemiologist who worked for the CDC in New York, Bangkok, Beijing, and Addis Ababa.
Even though anthony Fauci, the White House’s chief medical adviser, backed off his statement that the United States is “out of the pandemic phase,” elected officials and much of the public seem to think that he had it right the first time. But if the end of the COVID-19 emergency is at hand, the United States is reaching it with lower vaccination and higher per capita death rates than other wealthy nations. The conventional...
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