So what does getting past the pandemic look like anyway?

The lead starts right now.

From mask mandates to vaccine requirements, new calls today to consider changing all the

rules as the U.S. nearest would be the endemic phase of COVID.

We're going to tell you the metric that experts want to use going forward.

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Welcome to the lead-up Jake Tapper and we start today in the healthy day bipartisan

group of governors is calling on President Biden to offer clear guidelines on how the

U.S. can move beyond the pandemic.

Now that new COVID cases and hospitalizations are falling dramatically in the United States,

even in places where the Omicron variant hit later in the surge.

In fact, 45 states in the U.S. are currently seeing cases decline or hold steady in the

past week, but that's not the map that local officials use to determine when or if restrictions,

such as mask wearing and social distancing, can be ditched.

This is the map they use.

The level of community transmission measures new cases per 100, 100,000 residents and nearly

every U.S. county, as you see there, is still considered high.

As CNN's Nick Watt reports, some public health experts are saying that this yardstick needs

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