The Biden Omicron Battle Plan

 

President Biden is set to announce an aggressive plan to blunt the Omicron coronavirus surge this winter:

President Biden in a speech Tuesday afternoon will outline plans to expand coronavirus testing sites across the country, distribute a half-billion free at-home tests and deploy more federal health resources to aid strained hospitals, as the omicron variant drives a fresh wave of infections.

The speech will not focus on “locking the country down,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Monday, but the president will be “direct and clear with the American people about the benefits of being vaccinated, the steps we’re going to take to … increase testing, and the risks posed to unvaccinated individuals.”

“We know how to protect people from severe illness,” the White House said in a statement previewing the speech. “We have the tools needed to do it.”

The Biden administration will start delivering a half-billion free rapid tests to homes next month, according to the statement, and health officials will set up a website where Americans can order them. New federal testing sites will also be established across the country, starting with one in New York City this week.  [snip]

To relieve overrun hospitals, the federal government will immediately send emergency medical teams to Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Hampshire and Vermont, the president is expected to say. Some of those states, such as Michigan, had been suffering from case surges even before the announcement of the first omicron case in the United States this month.

The administration will deploy an additional 1,000 military doctors, nurses, paramedics and other health-care personnel to strained medical centers in January and February as needed, the White House said. The president is set to order the Federal Emergency Management Agency to work with states and territories to prepare more hospital beds ahead of expected surges.

Federal officials have earmarked N95 masks, gloves, gowns and ventilators from the national stockpile ready for shipment to states that may require rapid assistance in medical supplies. “The Administration has pre-positioned these supplies … so that we can send them to states that need them immediately,” the White House said.  (our emphasis)

This is, of course, in sharp contrast to the reaction of the Malignant Loser during 2020, when he sought to minimize the COVID pandemic and weaken testing guidance for political gain. 

We're especially happy to see help being sent to hospitals overrun by the unvaccinated.  The hospitals have told us they need help (see below), and now help is on the way.  But, expect them to continue to operate in crisis mode as long as millions of American death cultists refuse to do what's right for their families, their communities, their country and themselves.  (To get a renewed sense of the batshit craziness abroad in the land, look no further than this account from a former physician.)