Biden: Vaccinated, boosted Americans should 'feel comfortable' celebrating the holidays as planned

Joe Biden.
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President Biden on Tuesday laid out his administration's plan of attack regarding a surge in COVID-19 cases attributable to the highly-transmissible Omicron variant, first discovered in South Africa in November.

The president's newly-detailed playbook includes expanding COVID testing sites nationwide, distributing 500 million free at-home test kits, and deploying "more federal health resources to aid strained hospitals" to help America fight this fresh wave of infections, unfortunately timed right around the winter holidays, reports The Washington Post.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.