President Joe Biden said Friday that he does not believe that the current surge in Covid 19 cases is the new normal. Biden told reporters at the White House that Covid is not here to stay, as we're dealing with it now. We're going to be able to control this. He said it's going to be better. We have so many tools that we're developing and developing that contain Covid and other strains of Covid. The omicron variant has caused a spike in positive infections around the country in recent weeks. The US hit 1 million new Covid cases Monday, underscoring the threat of the highly transmissible variant as the world heads into its third year of the Pandemic, according to data compiled by NBC News.
The average number of new cases in the U.S. was 590,000 on Wednesday, with an average of 1,349 deaths. More than 110,000 Covid patients are hospitalized around the country.
The president stated that the country is better prepared for the epidemic, despite the dramatic increase in numbers.
Ninety percent of the schools are now open because we spent the time and money in the Recovery Act to allow the ability of schools to remain open, he said.
Biden said that they're dealing with testing. We've had 300 million tests per month.