{"id":371035,"date":"2021-11-23T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dont-expect-u-s-to-follow-europe-with-new-covid-lockdowns\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T04:03:00","slug":"dont-expect-u-s-to-follow-europe-with-new-covid-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-expect-u-s-to-follow-europe-with-new-covid-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"#: Don\u2019t expect U.S. to follow Europe with new COVID lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d81ac17d29\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-expect-u-s-to-follow-europe-with-new-covid-lockdowns\/#White_House_says_90_of_federal_workers_are_vaccinated_US_has_tools_to_avoid_%E2%80%98going_backwards_in_any_way_shape_or_form\" >White House says 90% of federal workers are vaccinated, U.S. has tools to avoid \u2018going backwards in any way, shape or form\u2019<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-expect-u-s-to-follow-europe-with-new-covid-lockdowns\/#Mike_Murphy\" >Mike Murphy<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#: Don\u2019t expect U.S. to follow Europe with new COVID lockdowns<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"White_House_says_90_of_federal_workers_are_vaccinated_US_has_tools_to_avoid_%E2%80%98going_backwards_in_any_way_shape_or_form\"><\/span>\n  White House says 90% of federal workers are vaccinated, U.S. has tools to avoid \u2018going backwards in any way, shape or form\u2019<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"article body\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000496505\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target 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White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said Monday at a press briefing. \u201cWe can curb the spread of the virus without having to in any way shut down our economy. We have 82% of people now with one shot and more and more people getting vaccinated each week.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       That vaccination rate is even higher among government workers, who faced a Monday deadline to get their shots. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAhead of tonight\u2019s deadline, the federal government has achieved 95% compliance, and 90% of the 3.5 million federal workers are already vaccinated,\u201d\u00a0Zients said. (Five percent have submitted exemption requests for religious or medical reasons that have either been <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved or are pending.)<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary\u00a0Jen Psaki told reporters Monday that White House staff members are 99% vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, about 74% of Americans over the age of 5 have received at least one shot, while 63% are fully vaccinated, according to the latest <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations_vacc-people-onedose-pop-5yr\" class=\"icon none\">data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>. The 82% figure cited by Zients refers to adults over 18 with at least one shot.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis is under our control,\u201d Zients said, adding \u201cwe need to use the tools we have\u201d \u2013vaccinations, boosters and antibody treatments \u2014 \u201cto keep people safe without going backwards in any way, shape or form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New COVID-10 cases are on the rise in the U.S., but Europe is currently the hotbed of new infections, with Austria instituting a national lockdown Monday and the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland and Croatia imposing new restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s health minister, \u00a0Jens Spahn, gave an ominous warning Monday that by the end of winter, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/jens-spahn-germany-biontech-pfizer-covid-19-vaccination\/\" class=\"icon none\">\u201cpretty much everyone in Germany \u2026 will be vaccinated, cured or dead.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The high rate of infections in certain parts of the U.S. from previous COVID waves may actually help somewhat, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the total immunity in the German population, it probably is lower than in the U.S.,\u201d Gottlieb, a Pfizer Inc.<br \/>\n        PFE,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202877789\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+0.79%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       board member, said in an interview on CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n                \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetTweet\n            inline\n    scope-web|mobileapps\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetTweet\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dynamic-inset-container article__inset__dynamic\">\n<style>\n            iframe.twitter-tweet {\n                width: 100% !important;\n            }\n        <\/style>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n            <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SquawkCNBC\/status\/1462770706199068673\"><\/a>\n            <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       \u201cI\u2019m not saying that we\u2019re impervious to spread here \u2026 But I think we\u2019re in a certain different situation than Germany right now because we\u2019ve endured a lot of prior waves of infection, and Germany has controlled the infection to a better extent in the prior waves,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cNow, the delta strain is getting out of control there.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Mike Murphy\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/author\/mike-murphy\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmmmurf\",\"text\":\"@mmmmurf\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"mailto:mmurphy@marketwatch.com\",\"text\":\"mmurphy@marketwatch.com\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mike_Murphy\"><\/span>Mike Murphy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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