COVID won't kill him. But he has a larger responsibility.
politician who is wearing a mask in indoor public settings right now. Across party lines, politicians are showing the country that they have “returned to normal,” even as cases skyrocket. Currently, between 300-400 people are dying of COVID every day. The risk is greatest to those who are both over 65 years old and have not received a booster shot of a coronavirus vaccine.
, 36 percent of people over 65 have not been boosted—that’s a lot of people without sufficient protection. And then of course there’s the risk of long COVID.Perhaps Biden is not personally worried about his prospects, as someone with access to much better healthcare than most Americans, who has. Maybe he’s been hanging out in venues with testing protocols and ventilation standards in place that mitigate the risk.
Regardless, Biden should be much more careful than the average person in the first place. He sees many more different people in the span of a week than a regular person does, with legislative sessions, speeches, public appearances, trips internationally and across the country. One infection of one politician could potentially have a big ripple effect, compared to an infection in an average person.
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