https://newsmax.com/politics/ashishja-omicron-whitehousemessaging/2022/01/16/id/1052625/The White House needs to get its “messaging discipline together” as the omicron variant of COVID-19 surges across the country, one of the nation’s top public health experts said Sunday.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University School of Public Health, lamented that agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health are putting out competing advice.
“What we know right now, people should be masking indoors, especially in large crowded spaces. That makes a lot of sense,” he said. “We are switching, I think from using the PCR tests [to] using the rapid antigen tests more commonly, that's going to be more common, and so the science here is changing. I think the messages has not kept up.”
“Right now you have CDC, FDA, NIH” advice, Jha said.
“I think the White House needs to get the messaging discipline together, speaking from the same page. My sense is that has not been happening consistently and enormously helpful to the American people if it was more consistent.”
“You had… one messenger, [former] President [Donald] Trump,” he noted, adding however “he often said things wrong.”
“But there was one message,” Jha said.So Trump is even better at messaging than Joe. Sad
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