POLITICO BIGHTLY: Biden hits the Covid trifecta
View in browser BY MYAH WARD Presented by Visa President Joe Biden removes his mask at an event in August. | Alex Wong/Getty Images NOT OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER — President Joe Biden shocked even his own public health officials last night when he declared in a “60 Minutes” interview that “the pandemic is over.” Biden’s declaration, which was not in his planned remarks for the interview, according to POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn , was his most definitive statement on the pandemic to date. Even as the administration shifts out of crisis mode, White House public health officials have come nowhere close to such a sweeping statement. The pandemic isn’t over, Biden aides told Adam as recently as earlier this month , but with vaccines, tests and therapeutics, officials do see the virus as less of a lethal threat and more of a manageable disease for most Americans. That’s why the president’s remarks were met with surprise and widesprea...
