China News Service, July 5th. On July 4th, US President Biden held a party on the South Lawn of the White House to celebrate American Independence Day and delivered a speech to promote achievements in the fight against the epidemic.
The party invited more than 1,000 guests and was the largest event held at the White House since Biden took office as president.
However, the celebration of the White House has triggered a wave of doubts: the party started "too early"!
Data map: US President Biden.
After all, the epidemic in the United States has not completely improved, and the highly dangerous and highly transmissible Delta strain is still spreading rapidly.
At present, about a quarter of new coronavirus cases in the United States are caused by the Delta strain.
For this reason, public health experts worry that the gathering of 1,000 people in the Biden administration will send the wrong signal.
The current vaccination progress in the United States is not satisfactory either.
Biden had previously made a high-profile promise to complete the Independence Day vaccination target, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data showed that as of July 4, the original goal of 70% of American adults to receive at least one dose of vaccine was not achieved.
CDC Director Volensky also said a few days ago that the vaccination rate in about 1,000 counties in the United States is still less than 30%.
What is more worrying is that the progress of vaccination in different regions is very different, and the unfair vaccination of minorities is highlighted. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, warned that vaccination may be divided into "two United States".
On May 12, local time, at the COVID-19 vaccination site at the Citi Field home of the New York Mets baseball team, people lined up for vaccination.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan
In the face of the reality of 33.71 million confirmed new crown cases and more than 600,000 deaths in the United States, in the face of the still severe anti-epidemic situation, the US government’s primary consideration is how to cater to the voters’ desire to return to “normal” mentality. This is the Democratic Party’s goal in 2022. In the mid-term elections, vote and calculate.
As the US media said, July 4th Japan should be a time to "think about what it means to be an American." According to data, 71% of Americans believe that the epidemic is not over; moreover, the interviewed people believe that their lives will never be over. Will return to the normal state before the epidemic.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the United States seems to have always been shrouded in politicized haze.
No wonder some experts have warned that this time, the Thousand People Party in the White House is taking “death and political risks” again.