advisers urged the administration in a series of op-eds yesterday of a new normal living with covid and stop operating in absolute. the president said that is not necessary. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and the world is probably here to stay. but covid as we are dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we are developing and continuing to develop that can contain covid and other strains of covid. the white house defended the c.d.c. amid criticism their revised testing guidelines were confusing and also possibly motivated by factors other than science. dr. walensky took that head on in her first press conference outside the full response team since this summer. we are in an unprecedented time with the speed of omicron cases rising, and we are working really hard to get information