Communication around the pandemic and its eventual end have long presented a challenge for the White House
The White House for months has focused more on hospitalizations and deaths than infections. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesBiden officials in recent months privately discussed how many daily Covid-19 deaths it would take to declare the virus tamed, three people familiar with the conversations told POLITICO.
The sensitive nature of the conversations and the decision not to bring any hard number to the most senior members of the coronavirus task force or top Biden officials demonstrates the longstanding struggle to articulate when the country has controlled a pandemic that has already killed more than 1 million Americans and is still claiming nearly 300 lives every day.slightly more than what the U.S.
One of the three people involved in the conversations last year said it was an effort to gauge what the American public would “tolerate.” “When you spread 100 to 200 [deaths] around the country, then it’s minimal around your [geographic] area,” the person said.Cyrus Shahpar, the White House’s pandemic data director
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