Probably a good thing that the new coronavirus "czar" (not my word choice) actually comes from the health sector.
nytimes.com/2022/03/17/us/…
nytimes.com/2022/03/17/us/…
Glad this article didn't try to hide Zients' failures in understanding the pandemic: 'The American Prospect, a liberal website, published an article titled “Fire Jeff Zients” that said he had “proven himself not up to the task, and Biden should relieve him of his duties.”' 
The story gave a certain quotable person a chance to contradict himself. Credit for looking where the puck is going to be should be reserved for those who actually look at the correct place!
Maybe Dr. Jha should take a CME course in immunology and virology (the largely true part is largely untrue)
https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1409526280865914884
BTW still unclear where the idea an infected vaxxed person can't transmit *to* others came from. The only explanation: casual utterances that vaxxed break transmission by 95% because they avoid 95% of infections warped into a gospel that vaxxed can't transmit onwards if infected
"Vaccines break transmission" ≠ "Sick vaccinated people don't transmit to others"
It's a language issue: transmission (noun) and transmit (verb) in this case have different components
It's a language issue: transmission (noun) and transmit (verb) in this case have different components
BTW Jha's best guess of 36.5% infection rate in June 2021 was off; it was 20% in May 2021 (jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/……) and 43% post-Omicron (plus odd precision in that 36.5%, suggesting precise inputs and a precisely predictive algorithm that are not there) arstechnica.com/science/2022/0…
Just learned that Jha is an economics BA, MD, and MPH. Not as good as a scientist with bench experience (for understanding data and detecting BS), but still an improvement over Zients' BA in poli sci.
Yes we had Zients with no science/med knowledge in charge of COVID19 responses
Yes we had Zients with no science/med knowledge in charge of COVID19 responses
The hiring of politicians and lawyers (Zients and Becerra) to run our COVDI19 response really speaks to the narrow-minded arrogance of the political class. When you're a politician or lawyer, I guess every problem seems to be a political or legal one.
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