The Biden administration’s new COVID-19 coordinator believes the pandemic is far from over, wants more restrictions, including COVID-19 vaccine passports.
QUICK FACTS:
- Joe Biden’s White House has a new COVID-19 Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, who believes that the pandemic is far from over.
- Jha has been pushing for “vaccine passports,” including mandatory vaccines for air travel, and other aggressive measures, according to The National Pulse.
- The progressive White House official has also characterized left-wing protests as “essential” and Anthony Fauci as his personal “role model.”
- Jha also called the 2020 protests “safe” in an op-ed for The Guardian called, “Why Protests Aren’t As Dangerous For Spreading Coronavirus As You Might Think.”
JHA’S COMMENTS ABOUT THE PANDEMIC:
- In an April 28, 2021 op-ed for The Economist, Dr. Jha outlined his “case for vaccine certificates to beat COVID-19: “Vaccine certificates are needed so everyone’s full participation in society can be restored,” he summarized, while insisting criticism that the policy represents an “infringement on personal freedom” as “nonsense.”
- “Its time for vaccine mandate for air travel Lack of one is becoming an issue[.] So here’s my story from last night that confirmed why we need it[.] Basically, we can’t expect mitigation measures to be enforced well enough to prevent transmission on airplanes forever,” he asserted before sharing a story about sitting next to a woman “whose mask barely covered her mouth” on a plane.
- “Anti-racism demonstrations are the perfect scapegoat for a rise in Covid-19 cases, but science suggests their risks can be mitigated… it is also clear that there is a serious risk and grave public health cost to not addressing systemic racism against black people in America,” the doctor said in his op-ed for the Guardian.
BACKGROUND:
- Dr. Jha, who will be replacing Jeff Zients and his deputy Natalie Quillian next month, is the current Dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health
- A frequent guest on mainstream media programming, Dr. Jha has routinely used his platform to demand the introduction of vaccine mandates and vaccine passports in America, while insisting “we are not anywhere near the end of this pandemic” in a February 2022 interview.
