{"id":1146015,"date":"2021-12-23T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1146015"},"modified":"2021-12-23T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:49:30","slug":"yale-professor-gives-scathing-review-of-bidens-leadership-during-pandemic-in-wapo-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-professor-gives-scathing-review-of-bidens-leadership-during-pandemic-in-wapo-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale Professor Gives Scathing Review Of Biden\u2019s Leadership During Pandemic In WaPo Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyale-professor-gives-scathing-review-of-bidens-leadership-during-pandemic-in-wapo-op-ed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1146015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Yale professor wrote a scathing review of President Joe Biden\u2019s leadership during the pandemic in a Washington Post op-ed, saying the commander in chief is \u201cfailing on covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health Gregg Gonsalves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/12\/22\/president-biden-is-failing-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> he and others hoped Biden would have a \u201cpolicy \u2018reset\u2019 to ramp up U.S. efforts as cases mount across the country. We hoped this would be the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, what we saw this week was an administration floundering and a president not in command of facts or willing to shift course in any substantial way on the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonsalves said Biden\u2019s encouragement to get the vaccine doesn\u2019t extend far enough to solve the issues the nation is facing as the new variant, Omicron, becomes the dominant strain. The professor then criticized Biden for not articulating a plan to get millions of Americans the booster shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already know vaccines alone will not solve this problem,\u201d Gonsalves wrote. \u201cThe president made a bet in March that vaccination could return the country to some semblance of normalcy, promising a \u2018summer of freedom.\u2019 But as the delta variant emerged, the highly transmissible strain tore through the country, outpacing the speed of our vaccination efforts.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/16\/joe-biden-china-covid-origins-ignores-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Pressed To Be Tougher On China Over Covid Origins, Biden Simply Smiles And Walks Away)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gonsalves then criticized Biden for not having a plan to make it easier for Americans to get N95 masks, not saying \u201ca word\u201d about ventilation and environmental controls or pushing global vaccination efforts. He also slammed the administration for not being clear on whether they have placed the order for approximately 500 million rapid tests to send to every American in January. The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/21\/joe-biden-free-at-home-rapid-coronavirus-tests-americans-omicron-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> they would set up a website through which Americans can request a test, and the test will then be delivered to each home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough he wanted to project competence, what we saw Tuesday was a White House playing catch-up and doing damage control after weeks of criticism, but still unable to fully commit to a national mobilization to put this pandemic behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an address Tuesday, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/21\/biden-says-covid-rapid-test-shortage-not-his-administrations-fault-because-latest-variant-was-such-a-surprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deflected blame<\/a> for the COVID-19 rapid test shortage, arguing Omicron caught the nation by surprise and no one was prepared.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7342062\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7342062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA \u2013 DECEMBER 21: Merline Jimenez (L) provides direction before administering a COVID-19 nasopharyngeal swab to a person at a testing site located in the international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid a surge in Omicron variant cases on December 21, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cCOVID is spreading so rapidly you notice it just happened almost overnight,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThe alarm bell went off. I don\u2019t think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/21\/biden-christmas-holidays-omicron-variant-covid-19-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also told Americans<\/a> they can safely celebrate Christmas so long as they\u2019re vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>A recent ABC News\/Ipsos poll found <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/13\/biden-approval-rating-covid-19-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">53% of Americans approve<\/a> of Biden\u2019s handling of the coronavirus, a 16% drop since Biden took office and a 3% drop since late October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Yale professor wrote a scathing review of President Joe Biden\u2019s leadership during the pandemic in a Washington Post op-ed, saying the commander in chief is \u201cfailing on covid-19.\u201dAssociate Professor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}