Despite these findings, the president has continued to scold and belittle Americans who have chosen not to take a vaccine or booster in recent weeks. He even attempted to use the Occupational Health and Safety Administration to impose a vaccine mandate on large employers, but the Supreme Court struck it down.

Even while the Supreme Court decision was pending, Americans watched Dr. Anthony Fauci obsequiously stick to the White House narrative that the vaccine and boosters were “highly effective” against new variants. Finally, in early December, Fauci made the milquetoast admission that “If you get two doses of a Pfizer or a Moderna [vaccine], the protection against infection itself is dramatically down.”

Instead of providing straight facts on this core question, the Biden administration and America’s “independent” and “non-partisan” public health alphabet agencies remained silent, covering for a White House booster strategy that obviously failed to slow the spread of Omicron—while other countries focused on testing, to greater effect. The silence of these tens of thousands of taxpayer-funded federal public health employees who exist to protect Americans’ health is deeply disquieting.