it's hard for me to be too hard on @anushkapatil though as she's a social editor.
Not a health reporter who would have known to get quotes from aerosol scientists that would have pointed out that so few cases after such a much more crowded event, beggars the imagination.
Strains the last strains of journalistic credibility - and completely severs the credibility of the Biden Administration on Public Health.
I get it, though. Why should top level journalists report essentially on the Typhoid Mary's running their networks?
I can tell them
though, that they should be getting PCR tests. With the amount of virus in the air that night, the inoculum, they most likely have a better shot at LongCoVid.
And without that test? Good luck getting insurance to cover what you need.
And insurance will point to the lack
of cases coming out of the #WHCD2022 as the reporters ARE NOT REPORTING THEMSELVES, as proof the reporter could not have gotten it at work.
Blinken was also at the exclusive Paramount after-party with Psaki, Biden's granddaughter, Biden's senior advisor Gene Sperling, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Coons, Patrick Leah (dude knows how to party - he was everywhere), and Don Lemon.
Why wouldn't the public authorities be contact tracing?
It would seem newsworthy to mention that the CDC has advised against contact tracing.
Which is the opposite of what their own field books recommend.
Also, it would seem you would
report x number of attendees reported they were infected.
As that does seem newsworthy.
Moving on, it would seem newsworthy to point out that prior to February 25th, such an event would have required masking. Which would have severely reduced transmissions.