President Joe Biden reportedly plans to make a major speech on Tuesday, which will include an announcement of new COVID-19 measures to address the “new phase of the pandemic” but also “a stark warning” to unvaccinated Americans.
The president’s speech is slated to be “on the status of the country’s fight against COVID-19, as the country sees rising cases amid the growing Omicron variant.”
NEW:A White House official tells NBC News
President Biden will deliver a speech Tuesday on this new phase of the pandemic “on the status of the country’s fight against COVID-19, as the country sees rising cases amid the growing Omicron variant.”— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) December 18, 2021
Biden is expected to go beyond the White House’s already-unveiled “Winter Plan” with additional steps to help communities in need of assistance amid the spread of the Omicron variant, a White House official told NBC News on Saturday.
Aides said the Biden administration is “prepared for the rising case levels” and that the president intends to explain how his team “will respond to this challenge.”
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— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) December 18, 2021
According to the NBC News source, Biden will also issue “a stark warning of what the winter will look like for Americans that choose to remain unvaccinated.”
According to the NBC News report Saturday:
“Biden has been receiving additional Covid briefings from his medical experts,” and “aides say he has told his team the message to the American public must be direct because of concerns that the omicron’s more transmissible variant is expected to spread quickly, putting unvaccinated people at a higher risk while also posing a threat to those who have some level of inoculation.”
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