COVID look back

Ed Yong  looks back on lessons learned but ignored.

I was not optimistic about pandemic response but it was much worse and the US systemically is unable to prepare for public health.

Ed blames a lot on the American ethos of rugged individualism 

the Biden administration and its advisers have reassured Americans that, with vaccines and antivirals, “we have the tools” to control the pandemic. These tools are indeed effective, but their efficacy is limited if people can’t access them or don’t want to, and if the government doesn’t create policies that shift that dynamic. A profoundly unequal society was always going to struggle with access: People with low incomes, food insecurity, eviction risk, and no health insurance struggled to make or attend vaccine appointments, even after shots were widely available. A profoundly mistrustful society was always going to struggle with hesitancy, made worse by political polarization and rampantly spreading misinformation.

CDC guidance is not only wrong   but dangerous