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brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 04:48 PM Dec 2021

Biden to deliver Tuesday speech on omicron variant as Covid cases rise

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Source: NBC News

President Joe Biden will deliver a speech Tuesday to address the omicron variant and unveil new steps the administration is taking to help communities in need of assistance, a White House official told NBC News on Saturday.

Biden is expected to go beyond his already unveiled "winter plan" with additional measures while "issuing a stark warning of what the winter will look like for Americans that choose to remain unvaccinated," the official said.

The news comes amid a rise in Covid-19 cases and pleas from federal health officials for people to get vaccinated.

Aides said the Biden administration is "prepared for the rising case levels" and that Biden intends to explain how his team "will respond to this challenge," the official said.


Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-address-omicron-variant-unveil-new-steps-help-communities-tuesda-rcna9263
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Biden to deliver Tuesday speech on omicron variant as Covid cases rise (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2021 OP
Imagine if the virus continues to strengthen, mutate or whatever it is doing, and Eliot Rosewater Dec 2021 #1
I think it's more likely Elessar Zappa Dec 2021 #3
No one's going to be listening in the mid-afternoon Deminpenn Dec 2021 #2
Dupe - progree Dec 2021 #4
Locking Yonnie3 Dec 2021 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(32,604 posts)
1. Imagine if the virus continues to strengthen, mutate or whatever it is doing, and
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 04:51 PM
Dec 2021

the worst possible thing that could happen to the human race happens, rump is put in power again.

Wow, between the chaos of the fascism and the virus...wow.

Elessar Zappa

(16,295 posts)
3. I think it's more likely
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 04:55 PM
Dec 2021

that someone like DeSantis will be the gop nominee. He’s scarier than Trump because he’s a smart fascist.

Deminpenn

(16,515 posts)
2. No one's going to be listening in the mid-afternoon
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 04:54 PM
Dec 2021

to a speech carried on cable news three days before Christmas.

Yonnie3

(18,361 posts)
5. Locking
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 05:43 PM
Dec 2021
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