What is not disbanding:
💠The pandemic
💠COVIDs continued evolution
💠Transmission of #COVID19 (half the US in the High or Substantial category)
💠COVID in US wastewater (which has been growing for the past two weeks)
💠2,000 deaths per week
💠Risks of repeated infections
What is disbanding:
💠Our monitoring capabilities
💠Our ability to act quickly if the situation changes.
I'd urge continued care, but I see my social feed, so I know that mostly falls on deaf ears.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/22/biden-disband-covid-team/
I think two things are important here, and the disbanding of *this* COVID team isn't really a big deal.
The lack of monitoring capabilities will "confirm" the idea that it's over to the average person. That's, obviously, the goal. Because of that, there's not anything a COVID team could do anymore. No data.
Jha was a net negative to the cause and it bugs me endlessly that he's probably off to go collect millions from those he sold out to now.
Bonus stat - 2022 ended with over 5250 excess deaths per week in the US. The Biden administration had a goal of getting that to ~1400 per week and bailed.
