historical results. results for workinging americans. economists call this increased productive capacity of our economy. i call it building back better. that s what we re going to keep doing. we ll keep building. i thank you all very much. i ve got a chance to that you can to all of you on tuesday when i am down in georgia talking about voting rights but thank you. [ inaudible ] mr. president? should americans prepare to live with covid forever? mr. president, should americans prepare to live with covid forever? mr. president? should americans prepare to covid is here to stay? no. i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay but covid as we deal with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to
yet. hospital zaizations in that age group are up 48% from a little more than a month ago. with the public exasperated by what seems like an endless pattern of covid surges, americans want to know when will it end. at a news conference on friday, president joe biden was asked if this was going to be the new normal. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we re developing. now certain some health experts say any kind of normal will likely mean living with covid in much the same way we live with the flu. a former adviser to president biden spoke with anderson cooper on friday and explained what it would take to get past the exorbitant case numbers that we re seeing now. unfortunately, if you
we are waiting to hear the view of the supreme court on the issue, lawsuit of people are interested in it and will be impacted by it, we will be watching, carrie severino appreciate your time. griff: this as the data set for the state of the union and a disappointing december job s report is released lucas tomlinson is live from the north lawn, hi, lucas. lucas: the president in las vegas attending harry reid s funeral and things will get better despite record setting in the nation nearly two years into the pandemic. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay but covid as we are dealing with now is not here to stay, the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools that we are
probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be. we have so many more tools we re developing and continue to develop. that will contain covid, and other strains of covid. now, look, white house officials couldn t predict vaccination rates really would stay where they were, they couldn t predict delta becoming what it was, certainly not omicron. but is it fair to say the president got over his skis to some degree back in july? i think he was definitely premature for president biden to say in july that the u.s. was closer than ever to declaring its independence from the virus. that turned out clearly not to be the case when you saw the delta surge in the summer and into the fall, and now of course the this nationwide uptick in cases prompted by the omicron variant, so you do see the white house shifting gears a little bit, where they still say it s biden s ultimate goal to defeat the virus, but i think they are tryi
vasht there s been lags, frustrations when it comes to lack of testing. there s questions about what those tests, that rollout is going to look like of the right now the white house is really trying to balance their plans while also hearing these words from former advisers on how they feel. and so the challenge for the president, seung min, number up, get your ducks in order or get your people loyal or be quiet until you fix the problems and covid is a global pandemic. a lot of this is out of the president s control but his political standing rises or falls with how he handles this pandemic. listen to his take today on is covid here to stay? no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be. the new normal doesn t have to be. that s the president s hope that we come out of this winter and things are in the spring as w