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House knew variants were a possibility. she was talking about the variant specifically. still, we got a tweet from white house press secretary jen psaki and i want to read it for you, said, we are prepared for rising case levels and the president will detail how we will respond to this challenge. that was a tweet issued saturday. still, the president really is going to talk on tuesday after he received a briefing last week that he was warned about this looming surge of cases that could rapidly increase around the country, something that you are really starting to see americans really become anxious about as these cases continue to rise. paula, boris? anxious indeed. thank you so much. let s bring in dr. bob davidson a west michigan emergency room physician and executive director of the committee to protect health care. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. now, the white house has ruled out the return of full shutdown. ....
Contain and control spread in congregate environments, such as school. fortunately now, schools are mostly getting out for the holiday break, but certainly, we need to plan for what s going to happen in january, when schools go back in session. yeah, many of those dele decisions are made at the local or state level, but i want to look nationally here. the white house press secretary tweeted that we are prepared for the rise in case levels and potus will detail how he will respond to this challenge. so president biden will be giving an omicron-focused speech this tuesday. so what are you hoping to hear from him, and what concrete steps are you hoping he will take at a national level? right. well, i don t share that optimism that we re prepared, but i think there are some steps that we can take. and again, first of all, doing everything we can to increase vaccination, ramping up non-pharmaceutical interventions, including using all of the levers that we ha ....
And what can be done about it, with white house spokeswoman jen psaki tweeting just in the last few minutes we are prepared for the rising case levels. and the president will detail how he will respond to the challenge. she goes on to say she will remind americans they can protect themselves from severe illness from covid-19 by getting vaccinated. getting their booster shot where they are eligible. we also heard from jeff zients, the white house coordinator, offering a preview of the message. going to hear from biden tomorrow, here s what jeff zients said yesterday during the coronavirus task force briefing. this is not a moment to panic because we know how to protect people. and we have the tools to do it. we are intent on not letting omicron disrupt work and school for the vaccinated. we ve done the right thing, and we will get through this. for the unvaccinated, you re looking at a winter of severe ....
Give a speech on tuesday, talking about his winter plan for covid, the president will issue a stark warning for americans not vax assassinated. she s also say the country is ready for rising case levels. now, these tweets come out on the same day that a wide-ranging interview was published with the vice president, in which it was admitted that the united states did not anticipate the pride that we didn t see delta coming, i think most scientists did not, on whose evidence we relied, we didn t see omicron coming. that s the nature of what this awful virus has been, which as it turned out has mutations and variants. so the developments offal day put all together, with you thing seem clear the message will ....
Around the shield of those vaccinated. that s a big one. this is a mutation that has something like 30 changes to it. that s sort of the most number of mutations of any of the variants we ve seen so far. it really looks more transmissible. we just don t know yet how more dangerous it is for those who get it. so that is the question right now. so joe biden really can t say anything other than we ve got to wait and see. in the meantime, most people including dr. fauci are confident the vaccine will provide some protection against this variant. we just don t know really how much protection it will be. and, remember, heading into this, things weren t looking great. the president is talking about it in the clip you played. we re seeing very high case levels. michigan has been seeing it in nearly one in ten cases of the national total. it s very bad there. that was by outbreaks in schools, according to state ....