
White House hits troubling pandemic crossroads as rising cases threaten progress
CNN
When Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ditched her prepared remarks this week to voice a feeling of "impending doom" about rising Covid-19 cases, she flipped the script on weeks of hopeful news in the United States' fight against the pandemic.
While she and other Biden administration officials have for weeks urged Americans not to let their guard down, rising vaccination rates spurred a wave of optimism the long, national nightmare was reaching its end. That shifted this week as a steady increase in cases -- eerily reminiscent of the last three surges -- took hold, worrying administration officials who fear a backslide.
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