here is white house correspondent jacqui heinrich. >> the white house is not ready to abandon president biden's promise to shut down the virus, even as six former members of the health advisory board urged the administration and series of beds to scrap the pandemics strategy and embrace the new normal of living with pandemic covid. >> does the president believe that covid will stay? >> again, the president's goal is to defeat the virus. the presence focus and objective is to save as many lives as possible. >> the doctors calling the claims about the state of the pandemic premature. the cdc director in march -- >> i know you spoke out but almost there but not quite yet. >> the president in july. >> we gain the upper hand against his virus. >> so far no white house responded to the experts on biden's own team. obviously it is busy to read these articles and i'm happy to do that but i don't believe the president has. >> but cdc shifting its message