Ashish Jha
The Biden administration has urged Americans, especially those vulnerable to severe illness, to get the new bivalent shots
The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot.
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said the government will transition from day-to-day management of the pandemic.
The Biden administration warned the country will run out of funds used to pay for COVID vaccines, treatments and tests.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Biden administration foresees unnecessary deaths if lawmakers don’t approve billions of dollars more to brace for the pandemic’s next wave.
Supply of the regimen was initially very limited, but COVID-19 cases across the country have fallen and manufacturing has increased.
Dr. Ashish Jha, the new White House COVID coordinator, said other tools are being used to track the pandemic, including community-based surveys.
Jeff Zients and his deputy Natalie Quillian will leave the administration next month. Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, will take over.
"This idea that you could live in a kind of an isolationist world. It doesn’t work," Dr. Ashish Jha explained to MSNBC's Chris Hayes.
Dr. Ashish Jha said the grim landmark figure could be avoided but there’s not enough "policy impetus to act as we need to.”