In an interview on '60 Minutes,' the president said, 'We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lotta work on it. ... But the pandemic is over.'
But COVID restrictions have been largely eliminated in the U.S. by local health departments and travel is back at pre-pandemic levels. dramatically in the wake of the summer wave driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron. Officials have credited widespread immunity from vaccines and prior infections, as well as growing use of COVID-19 treatments like Pfizer's Paxlovid, for helping to arrest the toll claimed by the virus despite a summer wave of infections.
But with the president's pandemic funding requests still languishing in Congress, administration officials say they are now working to wind down most of the The president pointed to the pandemic as a big reason his approval rating has been well below 50%.
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