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preparedness. dr. gupgupta, you called it pandemic before it was officially announced because you have a new essay on this on cnn about the end of the pandemic officially, but what does it really mean and are the doctors in hospitals feel like it is officially over? well, it depends, because there are still people who are still very vulnerable, and for people this is going to be feeling arbitrary and abrupt, and others are going feel like, hey, i didn t know that we were calling it a pandemic, because they have tuned out months if not a year ago. quickly, sara, looking at the number of cases overall, you will sort of, this is sort of looking at the history of the pandemic, if the country were my patient, i would say, here is the chart. you can see that there have been times when the patient was quite sick in the icu needing critical care, but there is still about 77,000 per week of covid. when it comes to the
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but it s a grate to be a dog whistle, to essentially talk about issues that have to do with racial justice and social justice without saying that race is a part of the issue. and also, it becomes this umbrella term for anyone who is liberal, right? i think by keeping it vague, it s strategic. it allows them to use it broadly, whether you re talking about education or environmentalism. and yeah, essentially, it s a cover for attacking anything that is progressive. a pejorative for anything that is people who are at least socially aware, and aware of the ills of society, and comparing to it pandemic, saying it s worse than a pandemic is beyond. there are so many elements that are being attacked as woke that are part of american principles and democracy. the vyings movement, fighting for social justice. allies were part of that movement. what do you say about america when you attack things that actually make america better and call it woke as a pejorative. civil rights, gay rights
exactly the circumstances in which they wanted the secretary to use this authority. of course not. this is a bill about like what happens when you have an emergency. so what congress said is what happens when you have an emergency is the secretary has the power to take care of emergencies, and it has that power by way of wavering or modifying any provision and adding others in lieu of them. that really has us as the third branch of government changing congress words because we don t think we like what s happening. there s 50 million students who are will benefit from this who today will struggle. many of them don t have assets sufficient to bail them out after it pandemic. they don t have friends or