Biden Is Rightsizing the COVID Crisis
The president continues to push for accommodating individual preferences rather than promoting collective solutions to the coronavirus.
by Juliette Kayyem
May 04, 2022
4 minutes
This past weekend, Anthony Fauci bailed on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser concluded that the indoor event, though open only to vaccinated attendees who tested negative for COVID-19 the same day, was too risky for his own taste. Biden himself split the difference and showed up only for the speeches, not for the meal. Asked to explain this turn of events, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, “Every individual will make their own decisions about whether they attend this event, other events, whether they wear a mask at it or not.”
The underlying premise was that Fauci and Biden, like all other Americans, must reach their own.
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