Biden speaks on the nation's fight against Covid-19 as omicron cases surge — 12/21/2021

President Joe Biden delivers a progress report on the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and shares his administration's plans amid the rapid ascent of the new and highly contagious omicron variant.

Anticipating a surge in cases this winter, the administration is expected to focus on increasing support for hospitals, expanding access to free Covid tests and increasing the capacity to deliver inoculations.

Omicron has become the dominant variant in the U.S. making up 73% of all reported cases. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said based on omicron’s growth rate she “anticipated this number would be about this high at around this time.”

The CDC director said there have been reported deaths from omicron, “although there have been a minority of them, fewer than we’ve seen for other variants so far.”

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Biden speaks on the nation's fight against Covid-19 as omicron cases surge — 12/21/2021

[GTPoor]

Getting vaccinated or not is a choice . You cannot bully and belittle people into doing it. Completely ineffective. How about make the drug companies responsible for any vaccine injuries?

[livonia]

meanwhile the most vaccinated city in America has the highest covid infection

[backthenmusic]

How are unvaccinated filling up the hospitals in New York and Maine when they are two of the most highly vaccinated states? Florida doesn’t seem to be having an outbreak 🤔

[CiaoBello]

The tests aren’t free. We the taxpayers paid for it already. We pay government’s to distribute the tests

[shellycrawford]

If he says "free" one more Nothing is free. We are all paying for it with our taxes.

[Teach]

So, this was a commercial for the vaccine...I am pretty sure everyone has made up their mind already. Thanks anyway Joe!

[joeravitch]

I didn’t think it was possible, but after listing to this speech I’m even less likely to get vaccinated.

[matteoc]

Imagine having voted for this guy and still think he’s doing a good job.

[pkghalm]

We need a new president! This is embarrassing!

[ddmv]

Trying to count how many times he's said "get vaccinated" I lost count :/

[dannymaze]

I like how there’s a 30 min vid of this man talking about covid but when the afghan withdrawal fiasco went down any question regarding it was ignored or he simply walked away

[bertaglen]

Why the heck won’t they discuss therapeutics! Like those administered in Japan and India...both countries who have flat lined COVID with therapeutics and voluntary vaccines...not mandated!

[justinriley]

I wonder if he scolded Hunter like he does with unvaccinated

[mikefoster]

First sentence he says "dont panic" second sentence he says "you could die!" great message Joe...

[michaelnotsch]

You would think he would have learned by now not to cough in his hand.

[michaelnotsch]

He sounds real healthy, maybe he needs a few more boosters.

[mikepalmer]

LOL the people that believe him are a truly special bunch of people.

[Poundingsand]

I'm not gonna lie, the "Join us" when he talks about getting the booster is creepy AF.

[mbonace]

Your not putting that genie back in the bottle joe....We know what's really going us alone, we are not sheep. Let's go Brandon!!

[janeparker]

If he says unvaccinated one more time- I’m going to throw up 🤮