{"id":1166605,"date":"2021-12-28T19:19:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166605"},"modified":"2021-12-28T19:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:19:47","slug":"top-medical-expert-rips-bidens-handling-of-pandemic-on-cnn-i-cannot-believe-this-is-where-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-medical-expert-rips-bidens-handling-of-pandemic-on-cnn-i-cannot-believe-this-is-where-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Medical Expert Rips Biden\u2019s Handling Of Pandemic On CNN: \u2018I Cannot Believe This Is Where We Are\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Ftop-medical-expert-rips-bidens-handling-of-pandemic-on-cnn-i-cannot-believe-this-is-where-we-are%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=1166605&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>Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, blasted President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during a CNN interview on Tuesday, saying that the administration has \u201cdropped the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so you saw President Biden yesterday acknowledging pretty bluntly they need to do better when it comes to testing, because we are seeing this nationwide shortage of those rapid at home tests. It\u2019s very difficult to just walk into a store and get one,\u201d CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins said. \u201cAnd what we\u2019re hearing from officials like Dr. Fauci is that they believe they\u2019re going to have this solved by mid-January, in a few weeks. But how critical is the window that we\u2019re missing right now for testing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is incredibly critical,\u201d Jha responded. \u201cAnd I cannot believe this is where we are almost two years into the pandemic. Everybody saw it coming. We knew we needed more tests. I think the administration had dropped the ball on this. They focused a lot on vaccines, which is terrific. Vaccines are a really, really important part of this, but did not pay enough attention to testing. And I think it has been really costly in this holiday season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>DR. ASHISH JHA, DEAN, BROWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: First of all, good morning, thanks for having me back. Yes, I do think it was long overdue. I\u2019ve been actually calling for a shortening of the isolation period for a while now, really for two reasons. One is the evidence suggests most of the spreading that people do happens for a couple of days before they have symptoms and two to three days after they have symptoms. So waiting five days is really reasonable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And second is asking people to be isolated longer than they need to be is hugely burdensome to them. And so I think this CDC move is exactly right. And if people follow what CDC has laid out, it will still keep people safe and let them get out of isolation more quickly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>AVLON: And, Doctor, you made the point that this is about incentive structures, and if there is a more reasonable window rooted in sound science, then that will increase people\u2019s ability or instinct to participate. We see the distinction between asymptomatic cases and symptomatic, but what about for folks who have vaccinated versus unvaccinated? Should there be a distinction there?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JHA: I think there is. Even though I applaud the CDC\u2019s decision, this is not exactly how I would have done it. I actually think they should have done this a bit differently for vaccinated versus unvaccinated, because we know vaccinated people, when they have a breakthrough infection shed for a much shorter period of time, so this is really reasonable for vaccinated people. I think they could have made that distinction, and I wish they had.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COLLINS: I do think it\u2019s surprising they did not make that distinction or recommend that people get a rapid test at the end of those five days as these discussions were going on behind the scenes. I do want to note something you noted earlier, 10 days of isolation was a lot, especially if you\u2019re a single parent or if you\u2019re relying on hourly wages. So do you think this is going to make people more willing to actually follow the guidance?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JHA: I hope so. I hope so. Look, anytime you put a really high burden on people to do something, they\u2019re less likely to do it. So if you are an hourly wage worker and you feel reasonably fine, maybe you have mild symptoms, you\u2019re much less likely to get tested if you know that a positive result will mean 10 days of not being able to work, of being isolated. Five days feels more reasonable to a lot of people. And I think as long as it is the right thing to do from a science and public health point of view, I think that\u2019s what we should be doing, I think it will make a difference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>AVLON: Doctor, we\u2019re seeing a fivefold increase in pediatric hospitalizations in New York City. So do you expect cases to spike after the break when kids return to school? And if so, do you think some communities, no one wants to do this, but do you think some communities should consider delaying opening schools in person by a week or so?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JHA: Yes, so what we know is that most kids get infected from their families and people around them. So I don\u2019t think that schools are the major source of spread. A lot of this spread that\u2019s happening right now is because kids are spending time at home, with older siblings, with parents, grandparents, uncles, friends. That\u2019s how a lot of the spread is happening. I have seen no evidence of<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, blasted President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during a CNN interview on Tuesday, saying that the administration has \u201cdropped the ball.\u201d \u201cAnd so you saw President Biden yesterday acknowledging pretty bluntly they need to do better when it comes to testing, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"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-1166605","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\/1166605","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166605\/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=1166605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}