Biden officials shift to an urgent tone as Covid-19 fight enters troubling new phase
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By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Biden administration officials acknowledged Thursday the pandemic that appeared to be waning a month ago has entered a new, troubling phase.
Speaking from the White House, President Joe Biden said the two dozen members of his Covid team were examining the surge in cases and hospitalizations among the still-sizable portion of the country that remains unvaccinated, and determining whether new mask recommendations were necessary.
“We follow the science. What’s happening now is all the major scientific operations in this country and the 25-person group that we put together are looking at all the possibilities of what’s happening now. We have a pandemic among the non-vaccinated. If you are vaccinated, you are safe,” Biden said later Thursday during a meeting with union officials.
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US health secretary implores the unvaccinated to get shots
By MICHELLE L. PRICEJuly 22, 2021 GMT
LAS VEGAS (AP) U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra delivered a stark warning Thursday about the coronavirus pandemic, imploring people to get the COVID-19 vaccine as he visited Las Vegas, a hot spot of rising infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
Becerra called it a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and said 99% of people who are dying of COVID-19 didn’t get the immunization.
“If you are dying today in America from COVID, it’s because essentially you’re unvaccinated,” Becerra said. “Why would you want to die? Why would you want to imperil your loved ones and your family and your workplace and your place of worship?”
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