President Joe Biden urged concern but not alarm as the U.S. set new records for daily reported COVID-19 cases. Biden emphasized that vaccines, booster shots and therapeutic drugs have mitigated the danger for people who are fully vaccinated.
“I believe schools should remain open,” Biden said, adding that they have the funding needed for testing and other mitigation measures to stay open during the surge.
Biden, though, is facing new pressure to ease a nationwide testing shortage, as people seek to determine if they or their family members have been infected with the variant. Long lines and chaotic scenes over the holidays marred the administration’s image as having the pandemic in hand. Test manufacturers have until Tuesday night to respond to the government’s contract request, and the first awards are expected to be made this week. Meanwhile, the administration is still developing a system for Americans to order the tests as well as a means to ship them to peoples’ homes.
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