Last night during a "60 Minutes" interview, President Joe Biden said the pandemic is over, though COVID-19 is still a problem, which prompted swift and sharp criticism among some public health experts.

The president's comments come at a time when the government is rolling out a new two-strain COVID vaccine booster, updated to protect against Omicron subvariants (see today's related story), and as virologists see some signs of other Omicron subvariants starting to challenge BA.5 dominance.

Biden calls pandemic over

During the "60 Minutes" segment, reporter Scott Pelley and Biden were touring the Detroit auto show, when Pelley noted that the city's auto show was its first in 3 years and asked Biden if the pandemic is over. Biden replied, "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it."

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