Fauci on What COVID Could Look Like One Year From Now

It was bad enough that the Omicron variant shattered hopes of a normal holiday season, or at least what passes for normal in year two of the pandemic. Now it feels like we’re fated to live with COVID-19 in perpetuity, forever worried that when one variant fades, another will quickly take its place, that we’ll never, once and for all, throw out our face masks. Anthony Fauci is more upbeat. No, we won’t wipe out the coronavirus, but we will reach a point where it’s tamed, he told me in…

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Why America Can’t Test Like Europe

Except for maybe pasta and work-life balance, no topic makes liberal Americans wish they were European more than health care. So when President Joe Biden announced a plan earlier this month mandating that private insurers reimburse people for rapid coronavirus tests that they take at home, some commentators cried out that his plan was not enough. The new rule won’t help everyone, and getting reimbursement will still take legwork, critics crowed—and plus, the Europeans have a better solution! One of the biggest holes in Biden’s new plan is that it…

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Joe Biden, the U.S. president who in Geneva didn’t shame America like Trump in Helsinki – USA TODAY

Joe Biden, the U.S. president who in Geneva didn’t shame America like Trump in Helsinki  USA TODAY U.S.-Russia summit: The American presidents Putin has confronted  Reuters President Biden on historic Putin summit: ‘I did what I came to do’  CNN It wasn’t just Trump — every U.S. president has gotten Putin wrong  MSNBC Watch live: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks after meeting with Biden  CNBC View Full Coverage on Google News “us president” – Google News

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