Barracuda2020 wrote:
Just when we're finally getting a hold on this pandemic, they recklessly lift the mandate and once again will have us moving backwards, and putting people lives at risk once again.
"Things are tenuous. Now is not the time to relax restrictions," Rochelle Walensky, MD, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told reporters at a White House briefing on Feb. 26. "We may be done with the virus, but clearly, the virus is not done with us. We cannot get comfortable or give into a false sense of security that the worst of the pandemic is behind us."
Chief White House COVID adviser Anthony Fauci, MD, echoed his colleague's concerns during an interview on CBS's Face the Nation on Feb. 28. "The thing we don't want is to have it plateau at 70,000 per day. That's exactly the thing that happened during previous surges," he said, warning that the current situation was "very dangerous, particularly given the fact that we have these variants around."
Texas's percent change in daily cases in last seven days: Up 99 percent
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