continuing message from the white house on covid, vice president kamala harris conceding in a wide-ranging interview with the los angeles times that the administration did not anticipate the omicron and delta variants. here s a eqquote from that interview. we department see delta coming. i think most scientists did not, upon whose advice and direction we have relied didn t see delta coming. we didn t see omicron coming, and that s the nature of what this awful virus has been, which as it turns out, has mutations and variants. a white house official also clarifying to cnn that the white house was aware of variants in general, and that s the reason for masking as well as encouraging the public to get vaccinated. on saturday, the white house press secretary announced on twitter that president biden will give a covid speech on tuesday that will include a