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Gregg Gonsalves

I deeply appreciate this honesty from Ashish Jha, the White House's czar. But what is baffling is that this is stated as a fait accompli, as if nothing we could do could possibly change this fate. That is abdication at its finest and an indictment of the entire Biden Administration.

washingtonpost.com/health/2023

Winter has traditionally been crunchtime for hospitals because of influenza and another seasonal pathogen, respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Now SARS-CoV-2 has joined them to form an unholy trinity of pathogens that surge in the cold months. White House covid-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said the American health-care system may not be able to withstand the continued viral onslaught, straining the system’s ability to care for other serious illnesses.
“I am worried that we are going to have, for years, our health system being pretty dysfunctional, not being able to take care of heart attack patients, not being able to take care of cancer patients, not being able to take care of the kid who'’s got appendicitis because we’re going to be so overwhelmed with respiratory viruses for ... three or four months a year,” Jha told The Washington Post. He described a scenario in which the typical winter logjam of patients begins much earlier than usual — in August or September — because of the coronavirus. It’s a darker scenario than the administration has portrayed in the past, and one Jha said most Americans have yet to realize. “I'just think people have not appreciated the chronic cost, because we have seen this as an acute problem,” Jha said. “We have no idea how hard this is going to make life for everybody, for long periods of time.”
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costrike

@gregggonsalves Being open about the circumstances, while continuing to not respond to them, feels like damage control.

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Dr. Rebecca

@costrike @gregggonsalves great quotes in there; "I just think people have not appreciated the chronic cost, because we have seen this as an acute problem," Jha said. "We have no idea how hard this is going to make life for everybody, for long periods of time."

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