President Joe Biden delivered his first address at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday morning, declaring that the United States is “back at the table.” “We’re back at the table in international forums, especially the United Nations, to focus attention and to spur global action on shared challenges,” he told the assembly, emphasizing alliances within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and others. Much of his speech was dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Bombs and bullets cannot defend against COVID-19 or its future variants,” Biden remarked, claiming that “science and political will” are necessary to end the pandemic. Some experts, including the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group, have said in recent days that the virus will likely become endemic and that treatment regimens, not vaccines, are the way to combat the virus. The United States, Biden said, is …