“As we’ve said before, as Covid goes, so goes Joe Biden’s presidency,” Chuck Todd said. “Right now, Covid is a major health and political problem.”
“A combination of new variants like delta and omicron and a stubborn vaccine refusal among millions has led to an all-time high in cases,” Todd claimed,
falsely implying that vaccines significantly slow the spread of Covid-19.
“The seven day average has blown past previous records,” he continued. “That doesn’t begin to account for people who don’t report results of at-home tests or asymptomatic.”
Again, this is wrong. Millions of asymptomatic cases are being added to the numbers in regional testing crazes, such as in the northeast.
“Hospitalizations are peaking as well,” Todd added without explaining that between 40%-70% of the hospitalization numbers are “
incidental cases.”
“But the death rate so far has ticked up much more slowly in part to a
less severe illness caused by omicron,” he went on. “The public is in a different place than it was a year ago, and the Biden administration is desperately trying to catch up.”
“The CDC has offered confusing and sometimes contradictory advice, the Supreme Court seems skeptical about the best tool in Biden’s toolbox, the vaccine mandates, and stay-at-home guidelines and school closures have given us a feeling of a recurring nightmare.”
“All of it adds up to a big political problem for the president, who pledged to restore confidence in the government’s ability to competently handle this crisis,” he concluded.
NBC’s messaging is subtle, but unmistakable: The mainstream media are ratcheting up to find a new scapegoat for the vaccines’ failure to stop the spread. The CDC is widely believed to be the sacrificial lamb for the Biden administration’s excuses for its Covid policy failures.