<a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/snoop-dogg-roasts-president-joe-biden-with-sleepy-joe-og-cannabis-strain-news.154910.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">President Joe Biden</a> declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be over during the latest episode of 60 Minutes with Scott Pelley. The announcement comes over two years into the pandemic which has killed more than 1 million Americans.
“The pandemic is over,” Biden responded. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it …but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing. And I think this is a perfect example of it.”
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Biden&#8217;s comments come one week after Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said that the end of the pandemic was &#8220;in sight.&#8221;
“Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from Covid-19 was the lowest since March 2020,” Ghebreyesus said. “We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. We’re not there yet, but the end is in sight.”
Over the last two weeks, there were around 65,000 new COVID-19 cases reported each day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Approxiemently 400 people are dying every day from the virus.
<a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/joe-rogan-is-confident-that-michelle-obama-could-beat-donald-trump-in-2024-presidential-election-news.145367.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">As for 2024</a>, Biden also remarked that he is not firm on running for reelection: “Look, my intention, as I said to begin with, is that I would run again. But it’s just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be seen.&#8221;
Check out Biden&#8217;s appearance on 60 Minutes below.
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