A common theme is that the Biden administration has been reactive, chasing the latest COVID crises rather than getting ahead of them.
Some experts say the administration’s cardinal pandemic sin has been moving too slowly, while others say it’s over-relying on vaccines.
But there’s widespread agreement that the administration should have made cheap, at-home rapid tests more widely available months ago…
The administration also announced that it will be deploying support to hospitals across the country. But hospitals were struggling to respond to the pandemic long before Omicron arrived.
“[T]his is lovely, but it would have been really nice to think about how to provide surge capacity a month ago,” said Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and academic dean for Brown’s School of Public Health.
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