should prepare to live with covid forever. >> no, i don't think covid is here to stay. but having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay. but covid, as we are dealing with it now, is not here to stay. the new normal doesn't have to be. we have so many more tools we're developing, and continue to develop that can contain covid and other strains of covid. the new normal is not going to be what it is now, it's going to be. >> now, remember, this comes at the end of a period that has seen new cases more than triple since christmas, and hospitalizations climb sharply. and it comes, of a week of confusing statements from the cdc and some damage control from the agency. also, clashes, confrontation, a lot of understandable angst over schools re-opening. also, the supreme court hearing oral arguments today on challenges to the administration's vaccine mandate for big businesses, as well as healthcare workers. there is a lot for the week.