President Joe Biden firmly stated that the pandemic is over.
President Biden’s comments came during an interview with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes Sept. 18 at the Detroit Auto Show, the first held in three years, and echoed those of World Health Organization’s last week. Pelley noted the large crowd at the convention center and asked “is the pandemic over?”
“The pandemic is over,” the President responded. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it… but the pandemic is over.”
Lack of Masks
“If you notice, no one’s wearing masks,” he continued. “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.”
Later in the interview, when asked about his below 50% approval ratings and an overwhelming majority of Americans thinking the country is on the wrong track, the President offered that it is a residual effect of the pandemic where a million people died because of COVID.
Aftereffects of Pandemic
“I think you’d agree that the impact on the psyche of the American people as a consequence of the pandemic is profound,” he said. “Think of how that has changed everything. You know, people’s attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of the nation, about the state of their communities. And so there’s a lot of uncertainty out there, a great deal of uncertainty.”
Biden would go on to observe that the country is “at an inflection point…We’re gonna make decisions, and we’re making decisions now, that are gonna determine what we’re gonna look like the next ten years from now. It’s been a very difficult time. Very difficult.”
WHO View
The President’s pandemic stance is similar to the comments from two WHO officials who stated the world has never been in a better position to end the coronavirus pandemic as deaths from COVID-19 last week were the lowest since March 2020.
“We are not there yet. But the end is in sight,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a virtual press conference Sept. 15.
Dr. Michael Head, senior research fellow in global health at Southampton University, added “It’s probably fair to say most of the world is moving beyond the emergency phase of the pandemic response.”
COVID-19 cases:
New daily PCR cases: 351; Probable Cases: 143
Total Cases: 2,712,623 (2,303,507 PCR cases, 409,116 probable cases)
New Confirmed Deaths: 4 (14 probable deaths, 34,679 total deaths)
Rate of Transmission: 1.04, up from 0.97 the day before
Percent Positivity: 11.5% as of Sept. 14; by region, the rate was 11.0% in the North, 12.0% in the Central region and 12.0% in the South
By County:
Bergen County: 27 New Cases, 16 Probable Cases, 3,221 deaths, 336 probable deaths
Essex County: 31 New Cases, 5 Probable Cases, 3,347 deaths, 312 probable deaths
Hudson County: 28 New Cases, 1 Probable Cases, 2,557 total deaths, 221 probable deaths
Morris County: 22 New Cases, 6 Probable Cases, 1,308 deaths, 306 probable deaths
Passaic County: 15 New Cases, 5 Probable Cases, 2,185 deaths, 205 probable deaths
Sussex County: 12 New Cases, 1 Probable Case, 408 deaths, 97 probable deaths
Warren County: 5 New Cases, 1 Probable Case, 325 deaths, 29 probable deaths
Hospitals
Hospitalizations: 807 (327 North; 239 Central; and 241 South)
Patients in intensive care units: 104
Patients on ventilators: 36
Patients discharged: 123
The state dashboard showed 70 of 71 hospitals in the state reporting
Long-term Care Facilities
Facilities currently reporting one case: 374 (3,175 overall)
Current number of residents: 7.030 (56,934 overall)
Current number of staffers: 6,866 (45,691 overall)
Number of Deaths: 9,634 overall (8,769 reported by facilities, 139 staff deaths)
Vaccine
Total number of COVID-19 vaccines administered in New Jersey: 14,766,484 (14,244,473 in-state, plus an additional 522,021 administered out-of-state)
Fully Vaccinated: 7,049,024 (6,839,305 in state and another 209,719 out of state). By county, 742,108 in Bergen County, 615,154 in Essex, 546,934 in Hudson, 396,554 in Morris, 369,742 in Passaic, 94,791 in Sussex, and 62,668 in Warren.
Booster Shots: 4,277,749 (2,365,626 Pfizer, 1,838,207 Moderna and 73,916 Johnson & Johnson)
The Regime Leader’s Surgeon General was on TV prattling on about there still being “400 Covid deaths per day in the U.S.” What he didn’t mention is that, on average, roughly 8,000 people die EVERY DAY in the U.S. Even if the 400 number is legitimate (which I highly doubt), it’s a drop in the bucket compared to all the other causes of death. Covid is (and has been) long over, and the emergency powers that the federal and local governments gladly invoked to circumvent the Constitution need to be rescinded IMMEDIATELY.
Countless epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists have chimed in, stating that the pandemic is FAR from over. COVID is slated to remain in the top 10 causes of death for many years to come and is currently, I believe, in the top 3 causes. We have a 9/11’s worth of deaths each week from COVID and we’re not yet into the peak season, which is expected in November.
The only reason to say what the President said would be wishful thinking or economic/political expediency.
His own HHS secretary has contradicted him.
Why is north jersey news reporting the President’s comments without including the many comments that contradict him? More wishful thinking?
Leading Annual Cause of Death – US. (source: CDC)
Heart disease: 696,962
Cancer: 602,350
COVID-19: 350,831
Your data are from 2020:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
Biden’s own Surgeon General claims 400 Covid deaths/day; that’s 146,000/year, out of 3,000,000 or more overall deaths per year–in other words, less than 5% of all deaths. Even that number is questionable, since the CDC illegally changed the reporting of “cause of death” to artificially inflate Covid deaths.
The vast majority of the population has figured out that Covid theatre is over. However, anyone who disagrees is free to continue cowering in their basement indefinitely.
https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2022/covid-third-leading-cause-death
These stats include both 2020 and 2021, so current enough. 2022 stats are not yet available, but are expected to be similar.
No, it’s not “current enough.” If the Surgeon General’s statement is correct, then Covid is no longer the 3rd leading cause of death, and may not even be the 5th or 6th leading cause of death. Which means: the Covid “pandemic”, for all intents and purposes, is over.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19-leading-cause-of-death-ranking/
Through February 2022, with 2022 deaths from COVID being even higher than summer of 2021.