Earlier this week, President Biden outlined new steps to confront the growing spread of Covid-19 from the new, more infectious Omicron variant, which, in only a few weeks, has soared from virtually nonexistent to 73 percent of all new cases. Unfortunately, Biden’s plan failed to include what could be the most important action of all: an all-out effort to make safe and effective anti-viral Covid-19 pills available—two of which have now received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA—to every American at the earliest sign of infection.
In less than two years, Covid-19 has caused more than 800,000 deaths and been diagnosed in 51 million Americans. The pandemic’s toll in suffering, health-care costs, and loss of productivity are huge and continuing to accrue. Omicron, the newly dominant variant, is so transmissible that Covid cases are surging not only in unvaccinated people but also as “breakthrough” infections in the vaccinated.
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