Unfortunately, what followed instead under the current president was Operation Snail Speed, with an obsessive focus on the vaccines to the exclusion of all else.

This doubling down and constant promotion of the one major tool we do have has led to a political backlash of resistance among those who don’t follow the president.

Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine doctrine includes no room for immunity from an infection itself or the possibility that hybrid immunity (vaccination plus recovery from infection) might sometimes replace or delay the need for boosters.

It is also possible that healthy children will have less need for boosters because of their heightened immune response. This, despite the fact that a recent study from Arizona shows that two shots of the vaccine lowered the risk of infection in those ages 12-17 by more than 90%.