Report: Biden Admin Plots ‘Sweeping Overhaul’ of COVID Strategy That Includes ‘No Scenario’ to ‘Go Back to Normal’
President Joe Biden reportedly plans to inform the American public of a major overhaul to his administration’s COVID-19 strategy during his State of the Union address Tuesday. ABC News reported Thursday, “In a private…

President Joe Biden reportedly plans to inform the American public of a major overhaul to his administration’s COVID-19 strategy during his State of the Union address Tuesday.
ABC News reported Thursday, “In a private online meeting, Jeff Zients, the White House coordinator on the federal COVID response, led the group in discussing potential trajectories in the pandemic — from the best case scenario that the virus evolves into a mild flu-like illness, to the worst case that an aggressive new variant could evade effectiveness of the Vaccine.”
“The overall consensus was that COVID has fundamentally altered U.S. public Health,” the report said of the Wednesday meeting.
The outlet reported that one person involved in the effort said, “There’s no scenario where we say, ‘Oh my gosh, let’s go back to normal.'”
Among those in attendance were “Zients; David Kessler, Biden’s chief scientific adviser; Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist and medical ethicist with the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Centers for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota; Dr. Luciana Borio, a former senior official at the National Security Council and former acting chief scientist at the Food and Drug Administration now with the Council on Foreign Relations; and David Michaels, an epidemiologist and former head of the Occupational Safety and


