President Biden Urges Concern But Not Alarm As Omicron Rises
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The president emphasized vaccines, booster shots and therapeutic drugs have mitigated the danger for the overwhelming majority of Americans.
President Joe Biden urged concern but not alarm Tuesday as the U.S. set new records for daily reported COVID-19 cases and his administration struggled to ease concerns about testing shortages, school closures and other disruptions caused by the surging omicron variant.
Speaking ahead of a meeting with his COVID-19 response team at the White House, the president looked both to convey his administration's urgency toward addressing the new variant and to convince wary Americans that the current surge bears little resemblance to the onset of the pandemic or last year's deadly winter. The president emphasized that vaccines, booster shots and therapeutic drugs have mitigated the danger for the overwhelming majority of Americans who are fully vaccinated.
“You can still get COVID, but it’s highly unlikely, very unlikely, that you’ll become seriously ill," Pres. Biden said of vaccinated people.
