America arrives at a moment of introspection on the coronavirus
CNN
When Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week that the US is "at the corner" when it comes to fighting the coronavirus pandemic -- though not yet turning that corner -- it was a reflection of a stream of positive data points in recent weeks suggesting that the US is finally getting the pandemic under control.
With a rapidly accelerating pace of vaccinations and 71% of Americans 65 and older already having received one shot, the nation seems to be breathing a collective sigh of relief that the United States is no longer staggering through the frantic triage mode that characterized most of the last year, even if the data isn't all trending in the right direction. While administration officials like Fauci and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, keep urging Americans to mask up and not to let their guards down -- especially given the rise in new variants -- the nation has arrived at a calmer moment of introspection, one where there is time to actually reflect on how one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations in the world was unable to prevent the loss of nearly 550,000 lives.
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