Joe Biden declared the end of the pandemic this Sunday night, in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” just days after Tedros Adhanom, the director general of the World Health Organization, warned that “the end is near.” close”. , but we are not yet”, and at a time when the daily average of deaths from Covid-19 in the country is 516.
Questioned directly on the matter by the journalist Scott Pelley, at the Detroit Auto Show, which for the first time in the last three years was held again, and regarding the crowds that attended there, the president of the United States had no hesitant to say that “the pandemic is over”.
The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Covid. We are still working a lot on the subject, but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one is wearing a mask. Everyone seems to be in very good shape. And I think things are changing. And I think this is a perfect example of that,” said Joe Biden, who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 for the second time in late July.
The remarks, apparently “off the cuff,” as the Washington Post notes, could be costly for the Democratic administration and could further complicate efforts to get Congress to approve additional funding for more COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Under anonymity, two high-ranking health officials confessed to that newspaper that the President’s statements took them by surprise. When asked about the matter, the White House also declined to comment.
The Republican Party, underlines the Washington Post, did not do the same and overnight left several doubts in the air about the possible plans of the administration for the renewal of the current state of public health emergency, which ends next October. .
Source: Observadora
