The costs of zero COVID are too high

Published March 30, 2021 4:01am ET



Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are going up in much of the United States, hinting at a third wave. Fortunately, healthcare businesses and governments have the tools to fight this surge: testing, tracing, quarantining the infected, and most of all, vaccinating the public.

Nonetheless, the Biden administration is reacting with hysterics and ridiculous nitpicking. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention invoked an “impending sense of doom.” Biden adviser Anthony Fauci over the weekend explained why vaccinated adults getting together could still be dangerous if their children played together.

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