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showing another 372,000 jobs added, a sign that that part of the economy remains strong. today s economic news confirms the fact that my economic plan is moving this country in a better direction. i m not suggesting there s a lot more work to do, but i am suggesting we are making significant progress. in fact the biden presidency has seen extraordinary job growth, a half million jobs added every month. the president said all of the jobs lost in the pandemic have been recovered and then some but that s not what people are feeling. they re feeling the spiking gas prices and the sky high inflation numbers that for many americans have made things like summer vacations now simply unaffordable. which is why the latest a. p. poll found the number of people who think inflation and gas prices should be the government s top priority, has roughly tripled in the last six months. one very interesting note, those two issues ranked one and two among independent voters. and those ....
Fittest and viruses believe that just as we do as humans, and they have to invade our immune system to create that new generation in their linage so as we anticipate, that virus passes from one person to a next person to a next person, just like in a telephone game, it will change and you won t be able to kill it. and that s how we will get past the pandemic, we won t get past the pandemic if we don t stop the president of the virus in the first place the spread of the virus in the first place, because the virus will always seem to be one step ahead of us. so pfizer and biontech, to that point, just announced they are starting trials on a universal covid vaccine later this year that would offer broad protection as the virus continues to mutate. in general, how long might something like that take? testing? could it potentially replace the vaccines many of us have already gotten? i think we can anticipate ....
Meeting in march. so what does all this mean for main street? well, each time the fed raises rates, it means the cost of interest, the cost of borrowing is going to go up on everything from mortgages to credit cards, auto loans, student loans. it will still be cheap to borrow, but just not as cheap. we ve already seen mortgage rates move up to the highest level since march of 2020. so, kate, the fed has this very difficult balance here. they need to try to cool off inflation but without short-circuiting the recovery or freaking out wall street or both. it s not going to be easy. as always, everybody will be parsing closely whatever jerome powell says later today. it s nice to see you. appreciate it. coming up for us, dr. fauci talking about a universal covid vaccine. now a member of the covid-19 advisory panel joins us next. ....
Protective. is that why a pan virus is more possible? we ve had human strains of the coronavirus circulating every year. a pan vaccine would be great. it s highly inspirational. in the 1980s, they were working on an influenza vaccine and that was more than 40 years ago. dr. fauci alluded to that when he said it s not right around the corner, but it would be a value to have something like that. for right now, you should worry when a variant arises where the vaccine does not protect against serious disease, and then we re going to need a variant-specific vaccine. right now that s not apparently in the offing. thank goodness. dr. jha had an interesting take this morning just on this point, about how we should maybe start looking at covid and how we can live with covid. listen to this. ....
Redefine who we are and how we want to lead our lives. basically, choose what we want our future to look like. so what s yours going to be? in the fight against covid, dr. anthony fauci is discussing efforts to develop a universal covid vaccine that can cover any and all variants. listen to this. i don t want anyone to think that planned coronavirus ....