KJP: Biden didn’t mean pandemic was over, was walking through car show
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So who’s behind the wheel, Joe? Karine Jean-Pierre suggests Biden didn’t mean to say the COVID pandemic is ‘over’ – and blames the comment for being distracted by cars at the Detroit show
- White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden did not mean the pandemic is “over” when he said exactly that at 60 minutes
- She said when he made those comments “he walked through the Detroit Car Show, the halls of the Detroit Car Show, and he looked around”
- “We have to remember that the last time they held that event was three years ago,” she continued
- By ‘over’ she suggested the president meant ‘we are in a different time’ and ‘we are prepared now’
- Biden’s comments on 60 Minutes raised eyebrows, including those of his top medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Faucic
- Fauci said on Monday the US is “not where we need to be” on COVID, as there is a “lack of unified adoption of the interventions” such as vaccines
- Fauci pointed out that only 67 percent of our population has been vaccinated and only half of them have received a single booster shot
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden did not mean the pandemic is “over” when he merely said so during the 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday.
“So just to step back for a moment, what we saw during that interview, 60 Minutes interview, when he made those comments, he was walking through the Detroit Car Show, the halls of the Detroit Car Show, and he was looking around,” explained them out about Morning Joe. “We have to remember that the last time they held that event was three years ago.”
Jean-Pierre also pointed to the United Nations General Assembly, which Biden will address later this morning, noting that the meeting hadn’t been completely personal in three years.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden didn’t mean the pandemic is “over” when he just said so during the 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday.
President Joe Biden was “walking through the Detroit auto show” when he made the COVID remarks, Jean-Pierre said, pointing out that this was the first time in three years that the auto show has taken place because “we are now prepared” in how to handle the to tackle the pandemic
“We live in a different time,” she said. ‘We are now prepared. We know how to deal with this pandemic. It’s more manageable now,” she said, crediting the Biden White House for the change.
Biden’s commentary on 60 Minutes raised eyebrows, including his top medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Speaking to the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Monday, Fauci argued: ‘We are not where we need to be if we want to be able to, cite, ‘live with the virus’ because we know we’re not going to eradicate it.’
“We only did that with one virus, which is smallpox, and that was very different because smallpox doesn’t change from year to year, or from decade to decade or even century to century,” Fauci continued. “And we have vaccines and infections that confer immunity that lasts for decades and possibly life.”
The US was still undervaccinated against COVID, according to Fauci.
dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday the US is ‘not where we need to be’ on COVID, as there is a ‘lack of unified adoption of the interventions’ such as vaccines
“How we respond and how we are prepared for the evolution of these variants depends on us,” he said. “And that touches on the other contradictory aspect of this – is the lack of a unified acceptance of the interventions that are available to us in this country where even now, over two years, almost three years, into the outbreak, only 67 percent of our population has been vaccinated and only half of them have been boosted once.’
Fauci noted that the US still experiences an average of 400 deaths per day from COVID-19.
Fauci will speak in public on Wednesday at the Atlantic Festival in Washington, DC
In addition to Biden’s comments about the coronavirus, the West Wing has also had to answer questions about the president’s affirmative response to whether he would put American boots on the ground if China attacked Taiwan.
During Tuesday’s press conference, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Biden had been asked a “hypothetical question” and that his harsh words to China did not represent a change in US policy.