Today President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the rising threat of the Omicron variant and laid out new steps his administration is taking to combat what experts expect to be a deluge of cases in the coming weeks, including increased testing."If you're not fully vaccinated, you have a right to be concerned," Biden said.While he assured the country that this was not a return to March of 2020, the president repeatedly urged unvaccinated Americans and unboostered Americans to get shots in arms as quickly as possible.
Though Omicron (B.1.1.529) will likely lead to an uptick of breakthrough cases, Biden said, they will likely be mild in vaccinated people compared with cases in the unvaccinated."The unvaccinated have a significantly higher