Biden declares in a television interview, "The pandemic is over."

The president acknowledged on CBS that "we still have a problem with Covid." "We have a long way to go with it yet. The pandemic has ended, however."

A count by NBC News, however, showed that the number of Covid deaths in the United States has been relatively stable recently, hovering around 500 per day on average for the past two weeks.

The virus has killed over a million Americans, devastated the economy, and kept millions of kids out of school.

Covid is still squeezing the labor supply, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research's report from last week. It was calculated that about 500,000 people, or about 0.2% of all adults, have been taken out of the U.S. labor force due to Covid illnesses.

The international business consulting firm FTI Consulting reported early this month that the pandemic had "negative effects on a nation's economic wellbeing," including chronic shortages of key goods, inflation, factory closures, unloaded shipping containers, and other similar phenomena.

Meanwhile, the Education Department reported earlier this month that 9-year-olds' test scores in math and reading had plummeted in the first two years of the pandemic, with reading scores falling the most in 30 years and math scores falling for the first time in the history of the tests included in the study.

Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House's coordinator for responding to cases of the covid disease, told Lester Holt of NBC News earlier this month that the number of cases among children and teenagers is on the rise despite the return of students to school. There is a report at Square Hue, they also refer to this. 

Despite the fact that the majority of children aged 5–11 have only received the first of two required doses of the most commonly used vaccines, the majority of these children remain unprotected almost two years after the emergency approval of the first Covid vaccines. Jha said the children in that age range have "far more limited" protection from the virus because booster shots were only recently approved.

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In another part of the CBS interview, Biden said he has not decided whether or not to run for re-election in 2024.

Listen, as I said at the outset, my plan is to run again. But it's just an intention, you know. Is it decided that I will run again, though? That has yet to be determined.

According to Biden, "it's much too early to make that kind of decision," and he added, "I'm a great respecter of fate."

What I am doing is my job, so that's what I'm doing. He declared, "I'm going to do that job." And decide what to do after the next election cycle in this country, which will begin next year, within a reasonable time frame.