anti-virals. not just two anti-virals from pfizer and merck, but we need a whole portfolio that can begin to put this pandemic back in its place. martha: the white house is ramping up orders for them now. what do you think? it s late in the game. we had an opportunity to handle this crisis at the beginning. remember, president biden promised us a unified country but look what he s doing with it volunteering. he s dividing it more. more deaths in 2021 than 2020 for covid. we re losing confidence in what he says because what he wants us to do is deny what we see and believe what he says. when you spend trillions of dollars fighting and combatting covid and you can t find tests,
hospitals, and things are likely to get worse. omicron has made us entirely reevaluate the way we re handling this pandemic, and it won t be the last variant to which we must adjust. so the question is, as covid evolves, how do we evolve? and as we re coming up on two years of this pandemic, with no end in sight, what will our new normal be? you may remember that during the presidential transition, between the time biden won the election, and when he was inaugurated, the then president-elect made his own covid-19 advisory board, so the administration could hit the ground running as soon as it took office. six of president biden s former advisers from that board took a very bold step this week, they published a series of articles laying out their plan, quote, a national strategy for the new normal of life with covid. the articles are packed with a ton of different ideas, but the reason i say this is a bold step is because their plan is not the white house s plan. they re pitching a way
the record for covid hospitalizations in the united states was set a year ago, last january, when more than 140,000 people were being treated for the virus, but right now we re not far off from that. as of this past wednesday, more than 128,000 patients were currently hospitalized in the united states, and, remember, that hospitalizations generally lack cases by about two weeks. on monday the u.s. hit a worldwide record with a million new cases recorded in a single day. now, predicting hospitalizations is by no means an exact science but it is something we can forecast. the cdc currently predicts we re set to see a massive spike in the coming weeks, they forecast anywhere between 24,000, and 54,000 new covid-19 hospitalizations every day by the end of the month. now, omicron does give most people a much milder case, but way, way more people are getting it. so it s still overwhelming our
with the virus, not a way to eradicate it. quote, it s imperative that the united states leaders establish and communicate specific goals for covid-19 management, benchmarks for the imposition or relaxation of public health restriction, investments and reforms needed to prepare for future variants and clear strategies to accomplish all of this. in other words, they re saying eradicating the virus is unrealistic so u.s. leaders need to set different goals, come up with plans to meet them. it s not a direct rebuke of the white house but it s an argument for a different approach. joining us now, the co-author of one of those articles, dr. celine gownder. she s a former member of the biden-harris covid advisory board. it s good to see you again, thank you for being with us. i just want to understand whether or not i characterized that correctly, it s not rebuke, but it is not the white house s position, it s not the cdc s position at the moment.
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