What should Gov. Doug Ducey be doing right now about COVID-19? Nothing

Dr. Cara Christ, then director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, administers Gov. Doug Ducey’s COVID-19 vaccine on March 2, 2021.

Opinion: Overwhelmingly, people want to get on with living with the risk.

By Robert Robb | Arizona Republic

The courts have struck down a legislative ban on vaccine and mask mandates by local governments and schools.

The delta variant of COVID-19 seems to have a greater capacity to infect the vaccinated than expected.

Related:  Arizona mayor defies governor’s COVID vaccine mandate ban: ‘No authority’

Preliminary indications are that the omicron variant is more contagious and more vaccine resistant than previous mutations.

COVID-19 cases are taking up a larger percentage of hospital beds.

So, what should Gov. Doug Ducey be doing about all of this? The prudent and most appropriate answer is: nothing.

Ducey is being pressured on both sides

Ducey is, not unusually, facing conflicting pressures on COVID-19 management.

The anti-mandate crowd on the populist right is demanding that he issue an executive order reinstating the mandate prohibition and call a special session of the Legislature to make it statutory.

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