'Learn to live with it': White House prepares to tell the nation that COVID-19 will become a part of life as Trump rails against more lockdowns amid case surge

The White House will reportedly tell Americans to learn to live with the coronavirus, shifting their focus from past months when they expressed that the virus would eventually go away. 

Administration officials are trying to intensify their messaging on the pandemic in the next week, senior administration officials told NBC News.

The White House is planning to offer up that the virus is not going away any time soon and will be continuing well pass the November election. 

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The White House is reportedly planning to offer up that the virus is not going away any time soon and will be continuing well pass the November election 

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Top advisers for the president will argue for ways to move forward, despite the virus

Top advisers for the president will argue for ways to move forward, despite the virus. Officials plan to push forward therapeutic drugs, while emphasizing that the risk of dying from the virus is low, the officials said.

President Donald Trump initially claimed that the virus was not a threat before  stating that the country would be reopen in time for Easter Sunday, while Vice President Mike Pence later boasted that the virus would be 'behind us' by Memorial Day. 

Jared Kushner declared that the country would be 'really rocking again' by July as Americans were 'on the other side of the medical aspect of this.' 

While Trump and the White House had a more intense federal response in March, by the next month, he was demanding that various governors reopen their states so that he could salvage his tanking economy.

The White House is now changing its tune. 

'The virus is with us, but we need to live with it,' is how the administration will move forward when addressing the pandemic, officials said.   

Administration officials plan to promote a new study that shows the promising results on therapeutics, officials shared. The lack of detail surrounding the study was because the disclosure of the information would be 'market moving,' officials added. 

They also plan to emphasize survival rates for Americans within a certain age group, if they don't have underlying conditions. 

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Top advisers for the president will argue for ways to move forward, despite the virus. Officials plan to push forward therapeutic drugs, while emphasizing that the risk of dying from the virus is low, the officials said 

Dr. Deborah Birx is expected to brief Trump on her assessment of new hot spots and how they are affecting minority communities. The doctor was in Florida, Arizona and Texas this week. 

Another official indicated that the coronavirus task force meetings and public briefings will become more frequent.  

Three White House officials shared that in recent days, Trump has personally asked for the task force to resume briefings. He has opted not to participate in them, they added.  

Confirmed infections per day in the U.S. have rocketed to an all-time high, more than doubling.

The U.S. set another record on Friday with 52,300 newly reported cases, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.