After a two-year pandemic-enforced hiatus, the White House Correspondents Association gala returned to the Washington Hilton on Saturday. An estimated 2,000 were in attendance, including celebrity couple Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson.
. For two years during the pandemic, many Washington gatherings were relegated to backyards, with plastic cups of beer.
In fact, the vast majority of Americans have some form of immunity — either from previous infection, vaccination or both. Few experts think that means all cautions should be dispensed with, but just as few are willing to maintain an acute state of emergency. The desire to mask up was notably low, at least on Saturday night. Though Psaki had said Biden would wear a mask, neither he nor the first lady did.. “That should have been a sign,” Noah joked, noting that attendance amounted to siding in matters of public health with Davidson, the “Saturday Night Live” comedian. Noah also mentioned that Psaki had recently caught the coronavirus “for, like, the 10th time.
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