In his first State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden urged Americans to not let their guard down against COVID-19 and pledged to make more tests and treatments available.
by directing the federal government to accelerate its efforts to detect, prevent and treat those issues.
at a pharmacy will be offered Pfizer’s antiviral Paxlovid for free, “on the spot.” The pill reduces the chance of hospitalization by 90%, the president said. Pfizer will provide the U.S. government with 1 million pills in March and more than 2 million in April. Last year, the president did not give a traditional State of the Union, instead making an address to a joint session of Congress almost 100 days after he took office. The audience was limited due to COVID-relatedFor this year’s address, attendees were required to take a COVID-19 test before entering the House of Representatives chambers. But given the new CDC guidance issued Feb.
Divisions over COVID-related restrictions and COVID vaccines are also apparent in polling. While 62% of adults in a Kaiser Family Foundationsaid they think the worst of the pandemic “is behind us,” more Democrats and independents than Republicans said that lifting restrictions could increase the number of deaths and leave immune-compromised people behind.
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