american people. howard: right. president biden took a shouted question, should americans prepare to live with covid forever. here's what he said. >> we're going to be able to control this. the new normal is not going to be what it is now, it's going to be better. howard: so, julie, do you think it's fair to put so much of the criticism on the cdc? rochelle walensky said to be getting media training, and is there a growing recognition by those of us in this business that we can't shut things down forever and that maybe we shouldn't count daily cases because it doesn't count -- [inaudible] >> okay. well, i do think that it's okay to say that the cdc's mixed messaging is confusing as all heck, and i don't think it's fair for, you know, the media to treat this as omicron, yes, it's going to stick around forever when the former president was attacked for not getting covid under control. now the current president who didn't get those home tests, millions of home tests out to all the families in the country that needed them before the