"The declaration was not part of his planned remarks ahead of the '60 Minutes' interview, two administration officials familiar with the matter told POLITICO."
The White House is reportedly panicking after President Joe Biden declared the Covid pandemic "over" on "60 Minutes" on Sunday.
"Is the pandemic over?" CBS' Scott Pelley asked.
"The pandemic is over," Biden said. "We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one's wearing mask, everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it's changing and I think this is a perfect example."
According to a report by Politico, multiple White House Covid advisers were taken by "surprise."
Biden’s insistence on Sunday night that the pandemic is over caught several of his own health officials by surprise. The declaration was not part of his planned remarks ahead of the “60 Minutes” interview, two administration officials familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
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