2021 was a grim year for Americans making U.S. history as the deadliest on record. This isn’t a record that the current POTUS wants to be associated with but that’s the unfortunate reality as COVID-19 deaths exploded despite available vaccines and treatments. However, POTUS’ administration usurped control of monoclonal antibodies, centralizing the distribution based on equitable principles rather than patient demands (markets), while the war on physicians’ early care regimens (e.g. ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, fluvoxamine, etc.) may have also had an impact in 2021 as pressure was placed on these physicians not to care for their patients earlier because the federal authorities don’t approve of these physician-patient local choices. Yes, 2021 was deadly with 3.465 million deaths representing 80,000 more than the record set in 2020. Meanwhile, 351,000 people died somehow related to COVID-19 in 2020 while 415,000 died in 2021 as dynamically mutating pathogens, leaky vaccines, and growing restlessness among the American public to go back to normal represented a confluence of factors and forces leading to the record death toll. America has experienced overall far more COVID-19 deaths than any other country at over one million now.
POTUS came in on an aggressive pandemic campaign on the failure of the previous president (Trump), yet the results don’t look great. The current president and its administration have been adept at blaming others such as unvaccinated persons, yet little discussed in the mainstream media is Biden’s war on early treatment with off-label therapeutics. The previous administration showed far more tolerance in local physician decision making for example. While the vaccines touted by the current POTUS were developed under Trump’s Operation Warp Speed.
Of course, this independent, apolitical unbiased media has been quite critical of Trump as well, as the controversial developer and performer turned president early on denied the severity of the pandemic, gutting the pandemic response team and other actions that created real problems in 2020. Yet Biden came in with a lot in place yet managed to alienate large swathes of the American public with draconian vaccine mandates for example. This action served to only divide the population along ideological lines.
Perhaps all of these actions contributed to the ominous 2021 statistics recently covered by Mike Stobbe writing for AP News.
Noreen Goldman from Princeton University chimed in recently on the experts’ ability to predict health performance across the country declaring “We were wrong, unfortunately” in regards to their prediction that 2021 would be a far more optimistic year, undoubtedly with some political motivation among some of the health care agency cohort.
TrialSite suggests the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over with dangerous pathogens continuing to evolve while evading vaccine-induced immunity within weeks according to recent research in Israel. While the vaccines do help prevent more serious disease and death, it's become clearer that a combination of factors, from vaccinations and pharmaceutical therapies to off-label early-onset care are probably needed to reduce the death toll, declares many front-line physicians along with more caution among the American public.
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2021 was a grim year for Americans making U.S. history as the deadliest on record. This isn’t a record that the current POTUS wants to be associated with but that’s the unfortunate reality as COVID-19 deaths exploded despite available vaccines and treatments. However, POTUS’ administration usurped control of monoclonal antibodies, centralizing the distribution based on equitable principles rather than patient demands (markets), while the war on physicians’ early care regimens (e.g. ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, fluvoxamine, etc.) may have also had an impact in 2021 as pressure was placed on these physicians not to care for their patients earlier because the federal authorities don’t approve of these physician-patient local choices. Yes, 2021 was deadly with 3.465 million deaths representing 80,000 more than the record set in 2020. Meanwhile, 351,000 people died somehow related to COVID-19 in 2020 while 415,000 died in 2021 as dynamically mutating pathogens, leaky vaccines, and growing restlessness among the American public to go back to normal represented a confluence of factors and forces leading to the record death toll. America has experienced overall far more COVID-19 deaths than any other country at over one million now.