Assessing President Biden’s Pandemic Performance

The middle of a pandemic might seem an odd time to evaluate President Biden’s performance on COVID. But infectious disease is a force of death and destruction as old as humanity, and President Biden understands as well as anyone that he needs to learn as he goes, alter plans when the facts change, and prepare for the next pandemic.

Overall, President Biden deserves very high marks. His guiding principle of calm competence and reliance on science have stood up to a new set of COVID challenges. His record is strong enough that no comparison to a…