What other news items are dominating the news today:
- Mass shootings
- White nationalist “replacement theory”
- Primary elections
- The war between Russia and Ukraine
- The price of gasoline
- The stock market falling
- Baby formula shortage
It is easy for the pandemic to get shoved to page 10 of the paper (should anyone still read a paper) and not even be front of mind for people as they want to reclaim their personal lives, go on vacation, etc.
“The big unanswered question, experts say,
is whether the rise in cases that is already well underway will be followed by a commensurate rise in hospitalizations and deaths. While hospitalizations are rising, deaths have remained low. About 275 deaths have been recorded each day on a seven-day average, according to the C.D.C. director, but the number has actually dipped slightly in recent weeks.
“‘We could be entering a period where we have an increased number of cases but a substantially decreased severity of illness, so that we see fewer hospitalizations and many fewer deaths,’ said Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
“That poses a messaging challenge for the White House, he said: ‘What we need to do is not whipsaw from, ‘We’re over,’ to ‘Oh my God, how bad it could be.’”