Joe Biden comments: The pandemic is over

The end of the pandemic has come according to Joe Biden

R. Gelfenstein – The U.S. government still designates COVID-19 as a public health emergency, and the World Health Organization says it remains a public health emergency of international concern. However, the president's comments follow otherhopeful critics from world health leaders.

Joe Biden said he believes the Covid-19 pandemic is "over." He did so during an appearance on CBS's 60 Minutes, but acknowledged that the United States still had a "problem" with the virus.

"The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with covid. We're still working it. But the pandemic is over," Biden said.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, told a news conference last week that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is "in sight" and that the world has never been in a better position. to end the covid-19 pandemic.

"Last week, the number of weekly deaths reported from Covid-19 was the lowest since March 2020," Ghebreyesus said. "We've never been in a better position to end the pandemic, we're not there yet, but the end is near.

The pandemic is over. President Joe Biden said on the 60 Minutes program that the Covid-19 pandemic is over in the United States. pic.twitter.com/B4almtqh6f

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The agency says some people, including the elderly, immunocompromised, with certain disabilities or pre-existing health conditions, are at an increased risk of becoming seriously ill and may need to take extra precautions.

For people hospitalized with COVID-19, the risk of dying was minimal during the wave of omicrons, according to a study published last week by the CDC. The researchers suggest that several factors contributed to the improvement in mortality risk: high levels of immunity from both vaccination and previous infection, advances in treatments, and properties of omcron subvariants that made them less likely to cause disease.