The president’s new plan will also include military support for hospitals and the deployment of several new federal testing sites and vaccinators.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to announce several steps to tackle omicron, including distributing 500 million free rapid tests to the public and deploying more than 1,000 military medical personnel to aid overburdened hospitals, a move that comes as the more infectious variant is now... [+]
President Anthony Fauci, speaks on the Covid-19 omicron variant in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC.
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