one year ago. on this day in 2020 are death toll was nearing 100,000. we were in the grips of the massive pandemic wave. with that, let s bring in our lead off guest for this week on this monday night. peter baker the veteran journalist and chief white house correspondent for the new york times. white house correspondent for pbs news our, moderator of washington week on pbs and we welcome to the broadcast david ignatius, author journalist foreign policy columnist for the washington post. good evening and welcome to you all. peter atwood like to start with you and the beat that you and share and that is this question. is there some heightened urgency at the biden white house to get him at least parts of his agenda, his legislation that he has asked to sign? yes, obviously president biden started off with pretty quickly start. he got covid relief bill passed
If you haven’t heard of B.1.617 yet, chances are you soon will.
This particular Covid-19 variant is at least partly behind the overwhelming second wave in India, the current global epicenter of the pandemic. The World Health Organization has now raised B.1.617 from a “variant of interest” to a “variant of concern.” Authorities like Public Health England are already treating it as the latter, meaning there’s something worrying about one or more of the criteria on which a virus is judged including how fast it transmits, how many it kills, and whether it evades detection or makes vaccines less effective.
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The White House says the weekly count is now about 29,000, but experts say in a large, diverse country like the US those numbers need to be much higher to keep pace with potential changes to the virus.