Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” despite President Joe Biden claiming the pandemic was “over,” Congress needs to continue to invest funds into America’s response to COVID.

In order to sustain this progress and to continue to advance, in order to develop the next generation of vaccines, especially mucosal vaccines that will help to block transmission even more effectively, we need to sustain our investment in COVID.

You know, we’ve made tremendous progress, but we still have work to do that’s going to require ongoing investment from Congress, ongoing investment in our country, so that we can continue to make sure everybody in our country has the protection that they need from COVID-19.”