
The pandemic may be better, but it's not over
CNN
Four days after President Joe Biden declared the darkest days of the pandemic over, America is facing a burst of challenges that indicate Covid-19 is far from releasing its grip.
Time and again -- as social distancing, families forced to stay apart and economic upheaval battered morale -- the nation has shown it's ready for the nightmare to end. But the virus doesn't work on human or political timetables. Now there are warning signs that troubling days are ahead, threatening to escalate the political tensions of a period that has torn at bitter ideological divides. It all adds up to a serious problem for the White House, which has touted its competence in managing the vaccine rollout and handling the Covid crisis it inherited.
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