The last thing President Biden wanted to be talking about two weeks before the midterms is COVID shots.
And yet there he was yesterday, not only urging people to get their booster shots, but rolling up his sleeves and getting his own booster.
This from the man who happily declared months ago that “the pandemic is over.” Well, not so much.
I suppose the president, who got the coronavirus himself, could have waited until after the election. But I think the greater fear at the White House is that a winter wave is coming that could bring his own management of the vaccine program under intense political fire.
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President Biden gets his updated COVID-19 booster in the South Court Auditorium at the White House. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Recent data showed that about 4% of Americans – roughly 11 million people – have gotten the new booster.
As the Washington Post points out, a recent poll by…
