The Problem With Our Boost-Boost-Boost COVID Strategy
We need to explore more options for fighting the disease, but our leaders lack moral imagination.
by Céline Gounder
Oct 27, 2022
3 minutes
The United States has defaulted to treating life with the coronavirus as the new normal, but this normal, sadly, is anything but new. Americans have always lived with deadly inequities in our society, and we can’t seem to imagine doing better. For the past six months, the U.S. has averaged 300 to 500 COVID deaths a day. Living with has become a euphemism for accepting . Is this how many deaths Americans are willing to tolerate? The question hasn’t been explicitly debated, because the truth is too ugly to acknowledge.
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