- "No one wears masks, I think the situation has changed," said the US president.

US President Joe Biden.

Biden: "The pandemic is over"

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, assured that the coronavirus pandemic "is over", although he acknowledged that even today the United States "still has a problem" with covid-19.

"The pandemic is over. If you look, no one is wearing a mask. Everyone seems to be in very good shape, and this is why I think the situation has changed," the president said during an interview with CBS recorded on the Detroit Auto Show last Wednesday and aired this Sunday night.

“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over,” President Biden tells 60 Minutes in an interview in Detroit. https://t.co/7SixTE3OMT pic.twitter.com/s5fyjRpYuX

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) September 19, 2022

On the other hand, also regarding the pandemic, Biden pointed out that the low levels of support for his government may be partly based on the impact that the coronavirus has had on the minds of Americans.

"The impact on the minds of the American people as a result of the pandemic is profound. Think about how that has changed everything. People's attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of the nation, about the state of their communities," he said.

Finally, Biden was able to value the management of the coronavirus carried out by his Administration. "We have lost a million people to covid-19. When I took office, when I was elected, only two million people had been vaccinated. Now I have 220 million," settled the White House tenant.

More than a million dead

The health authorities of the United States have confirmed more than 1.05 million deaths from the coronavirus, a disease that has infected more than 95.4 million people in the country.

The United States is the country in the world that has registered the most deaths from the covid-19 pandemic, which began in March 2020, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

During the last week, there were an average of about 60,000 daily infections and about 400 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

67.7% of the US population is vaccinated against covid-19 and, and of that group, 48.6% have received a booster dose.

Last August, the CDC stopped recommending social distancing and quarantines for people exposed to the coronavirus.

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