‘Tuesday is too late’: Health experts urge Biden to move faster amid Omicron threat | Boston Globe

CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer is featured in the Boston Globe:

“Dr. Davidson Hamer, a physician at Boston Medical Center and a Boston University epidemiologist, said Biden has to help people overcome fatigue with the pandemic and the restrictions it imposes on daily life.

Putting more vaccine shots into arms needs to be a priority for Biden’s remarks Tuesday, Hamer said. The president needs to focus his message on Americans who are not vaccinated and figure out how to overcome mistrust of politicians as the vaccine has become divisive, he said.

‘The problem in hearing it from the president, there is a lot of mistrust of government and of science among certain sectors of the population. I’m not sure the president is the best messenger for this,’ Hamer said. ‘They need to hear it from somebody that they trust.’ “

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