It must have finally dawned on them that it stopped working from them politically<\/p>\n
Biden: \u2018The pandemic is over.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n President Biden declared the coronavirus pandemic \u201cover\u201d in an interview that aired Sunday, pointing to the return of large events and the lack of masking and other public health measures in place nationwide.<\/p>\n \u201cWe still have a problem with COVID. We\u2019re still doing a lotta work on it. It\u2019s \u2014 but the pandemic is over. if you notice, no one\u2019s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it\u2019s changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.\u201d<\/p>\n The United States is still recording an average of more than 400 deaths per day from COVID-19, according to New York Times data, and more than 1 million Americans have died from the virus since the pandemic began in early 2020.<\/p>\n Highly contagious variants have spread throughout the globe, making it nearly impossible to fully eradicate COVID-19.<\/p>\n As a result, the Biden administration has focused its messaging on the importance of getting vaccinated and receiving booster shots to increase immunity, as well as the wide availability of of antiviral pills and other forms of treatment for those who contract the virus.<\/p>\n Biden himself contracted COVID-19 in July, but experienced only mild symptoms, according to his doctor. Officials credited his mild case to being fully vaccinated and taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid.<\/p>\n The U.S. and much of the world has returned to hosting large events over the past year, like the auto show, and done away with requirements that attendees wear masks or provide proof of vaccination. The U.S. still requires foreign visitors to be fully vaccinated to come to the country by plane.<\/p>\n The World Health Organization (WHO) still categorizes COVID-19 as a pandemic.<\/p>\n Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden\u2019s top medical adviser on the pandemic, said earlier this year the U.S. was moving \u201cout of the pandemic phase\u201d with COVID-19, pointing to the manageable levels of hospitalizations and deaths in the country.<\/p>\n Biden has in the past argued that the United States had turned a corner on the pandemic, most notably during a speech on Independence Day in 2021, when he asserted the country had the tools necessary to \u201cdeclare independence\u201d from the virus.<\/p>\n But in the weeks that followed, the delta variant contributed to a surge in cases and deaths. And in late 2021 into early 2022, the omicron variant again led to a spike in cases and deaths. Newly available booster shots were designed specifically to shield Americans from severe cases of the omicron variant.<\/p>\n In the 60 Minutes interview, Biden said the \u201cimpact on the psyche of the American people as a consequence of the pandemic is profound.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThink of how that has changed everything. You know, people\u2019s attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of the nation, about the state of their communities. And so there\u2019s a lot of uncertainty out there, a great deal of uncertainty.\u00a0And we lost a million people. A million people to COVID,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I got in office, when I got elected, only 2 million people had been vaccinated. I got 220 million \u2014 my point is it takes time,\u201d he added. \u201cWe were left in a very difficult situation. It\u2019s been a very difficult time. Very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It must have finally dawned on them that it stopped working from them politically Biden: \u2018The pandemic is over.\u2019 President Biden declared the coronavirus pandemic \u201cover\u201d in an interview that aired Sunday, pointing to the return of large events and the lack of masking and other public health measures in place nationwide. \u201cWe still have … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85732,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85731\/revisions\/85732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}