Is Biden Declaring Independence from Virus Too Soon?

“President Biden’s plan to celebrate ‘independence from the virus’ on the Fourth of July is running into an unpleasant reality: Less than half the country is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, and the highly contagious Delta variant is threatening new outbreaks,” the New York Times reports.

“Public health experts fear that scenes of cross-country celebrations — including a White House party with a liberation theme — will send the wrong message when wide swaths of the population remain vulnerable and true independence from the worst public health crisis in a century may be a long way off.”