Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Was Biden Too Slow to Act on Vaccines and Afghan Refugees?

Mandates brought up vaccination rates and patience produced bipartisan support for accepting exiles. But patience had high costs, too.

August 20, 2021 at 7:30 AM EDT

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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The U.S. hit an important marker in the fight against the pandemic on Thursday: One million shots were administered. That brought the seven-day average up to 832,000 a day. That’s good news.

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