Biden tells 60 Minutes 'the pandemic is over'

President Biden declared 'The pandemic is over' even as his administration continued the public health emergency (not ended until May 11, 2023), defended vaccine mandates, and cited emergency authority for student-debt relief. Critics said the president undercut his own rationale for continuing emergency powers; the White House noted he hedged within the same sentence and that WHO had signaled the 'end in sight' days earlier.