Pres. Biden: 'All these people who have not been vaccinated: you have an obligation to yourselves, to your families, and quite frankly—and I know I'll get criticized for this—to your country.' 'I honest-to-God believe it's your patriotic duty.'
President Joe Biden is set to lay out drastic new steps to fight the surge of the omicron variant, which is now the dominant COVID variant in the United States.President Joe Biden will announce a plan on Tuesday to distribute 500 million free at-home rapid tests to Americans beginning in January as part of an attempt to double down on the spread of a transmissible variant that has hit the U.S. distressingly close to the holidays.
The move is a significant departure from the White House's posture just two weeks ago, when White House press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed the idea of mailing tests to every American as costly and wasteful."Then what happens if every American has one test? How much does that cost, and then what happens after that?" Psaki said.
Dr. Sam Scarpino, managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation and a member of their Pandemic Prevention Institute, said the government could have seen this coming. There are currently 175 troops spread over four states, and since August 2021, when a joint military operation across the Army, Navy and Air Force began, about 530 medical military personnel have been deployed to work alongside civilian health care providers.
The 500 million free at-home tests that will be announced on Tuesday will be in addition to getting at-home tests reimbursed, which will go into effect on Jan. 15.
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