A Senate, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing demonstrated that there is no political will to continue to fund the COVID-19 response despite the ongoing threat posed by new, ever more contagious and immune evading variants.
Unless things get really bad in the future, Friday may be remembered as the moment that U.S. masking officially became less of a collective obligation and more of an individual choice.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky made the remarkable statement that people need a “break” from wearing masks even while she acknowledged more than 2,200 people are dying from COVID-19 every day.