Today the Biden administration's COVID-19 response coordinator, Jeff Zients, said the United States would be shipping 9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Africa in the coming days, as the global threat of the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant continues to grow.Yesterday, President Joe Biden said the White House would be sending another 2 million doses of vaccine around the world in the next 100 days."If we want to protect the American people and our economy, we must defeat the virus everywhere," Zients said during a press conference today.Omicron in 4 more statesThe United States is one of roughly 35 nations that have confirmed cases of the Omicron variant, first identified last week in South Africa.Yesterday and today Nebraska, New York, and