Confession time

run away!

Former Biden COVID Response Team Member: we fucked up

This isn’t new, but now the Biden folks are acknowledging it.

Dr. Zeke Emanuel, the Vice Provost of Global Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and a former member of the Biden transition team’s Covid task force, told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Sunday that virtual learning had been “a failure across the country.” [….]

“I agree with Mayor Lightfoot that kids have to be in school,” said Emanuel, “and we know that virtual learning did not work. It was a failure across the country and we kept kids out way too long.”

Emanuel also acknowledged that they failed when it came to testing.

“Everyone thought the vaccines were going to solve everything, which meant the administration took its eye off the ball when it came to testing,” Emanuel had said earlier last week.

Emanuel noted that they finally had gotten a reasonable testing process in place [under Trump] but then that got dismantled under Biden after the vaccine when they then came to rely upon that.

Elex, what about this? – Zeke Emanuel on Biden Being Unprepared for Omicron: ‘CDC Made Terrible Mistakes About Testing,’ Will Need 4 Billion Tests pic.twitter.com/3LPayG1ICn

— Alexandra Datig | Front Page Index (@alexdatig) January 8, 2022