The American public can trust the White House when it comes to coronavirus advice just as much as they can trust the vaccines now being pushed across the country, according to Vice President Kamala Harris.

The advice came in a wide-ranging interview with the Los Angeles Times published Sunday where Harris conceded the Biden administration was blind sided by the Delta and Omicron variants and said doubts sown by “misinformation” over vaccines will prolong the pandemic well into a third year.

Harris’s comments about coronavirus, in which she also appeared to blame the medical community for a lack of foresight, underscores the administration’s view the pandemic is its single biggest obstacle to better voter engagement ahead of next year’s midterms.