It all adds up to a serious problem for the White House, which has touted its competence in managing the vaccine rollout and handling the Covid crisis it inherited. The good news is that the vaccine still has an extraordinarily high rate of preventing serious illness and death. But the latest development does suggest it will be imperative to extend a huge government inoculation effort into the future. "Other parts of the United States are going to look like no more pandemic." CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said at a White House Covid-19 briefing Thursday that "99.5% of deaths from Covid-19 in the United States were in unvaccinated people."

Source: CNN July 09, 2021 04:07 UTC