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“Don’t panic, it’s not March 2020”: Biden reassures, but sticks with No Vax

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NEW YORK – “If you are not vaccinated, you have good reasons to be worried, because you risk hospitalization and death. If you have the third booster, you are much safer and can safely celebrate the Christmas holidays.” It is the warning that Joe Biden yesterday launched to the Americans, in the speech with which he presented the plan to deal with the Omicron emergency, which includes the mobilization of a thousand soldiers and the purchase of half a billion tests to be done at home.

The president admitted that the new variant “is scary, because there will be a surge in infections. But we are not in the conditions of March 2020, for three reasons: first, 200 million Americans are vaccinated; second, we are more ready; third , we know the virus much better. “

The 40 million Americans who are not vaccinated “have an obligation to do so, for yourselves, your families, and the community, where hospitals are in danger of being overrun.”

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Then he turned to his parents: “We know how to keep schools open, but vaccinate your children. Don’t wait any longer. It’s sure, six million children between 5 and 11 have already done so.” Finally he attacked the deniers: “Whoever spreads lies to make money must stop now!”.

The first point of the plan is to increase support for hospitals, with staff, beds and materials. There will be a mobilization, including a thousand military doctors, nurses and paramedics, who will go to the hospitals where they serve between January and February.

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Then new federal emergency medical personnel will be activated in the states that need them most. Six immediate response teams, with over 100 doctors and paramedics, will go to Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Arizona, New Hampshire and Vermont.

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To increase the capacity of hospitals, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has activated the Responses Teams. The aim is to help the National Response Coordination Centers (Nrcc) to verify the needs in the area, in view of the surge in infections expected during the winter. Therefore, as needed, beds and materials will be increased, at the expense of the federal government, as already happened in Baltimore, Maryland.

Added to this will be the acceleration of the licenses to have more reads. Hundreds of ambulances will join existing fleets, transporting patients from full hospitals to those that still have room. So 30 paramedics have been sent to New Hampshire and Vermont, and 20 to Arizona, while 30 ambulances will move to New York and 8 to Maine.

The Strategic National Stockpile will place materials where they are expected to become scarce and needed, including hundreds of millions of N-95 masks, billions of gloves, tens of millions of gowns, and over 100,000 fans. Last week, the administration sent 330 fans to Indiana, Michigan, Maine and New Hampshire.

Access to free tests, including those done at home, is also enhanced. There are currently over 20,000 sites in the US, but more will be added starting in New York.

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The administration will buy half a billion quick tests, which will be delivered starting in January. To get them, just order them on a website and receive them at home. The Defense Production Act – the law used to secure supplies in wartime – will continue to be used to accelerate production.

It also aims to expand the vaccination campaign. During the fall, 10,000 sites were added, bringing the total to 90,000, where anyone can be immunized for free.

Fema will mobilize other mobile units that you find nearby, including one ready in Washington and four in New Mexico. Hundreds of federal vaccinators will be added at sites in 12 states.

In addition, the administration will facilitate the bureaucratic procedures of the pharmacies, in order to speed up the recruitment of staff and vaccinations. At this point there are no more excuses. Anyone who wants to get immunized can do it, easily and for free.

The problem remains of convincing the approximately 40 million Americans who refuse out of ignorance, political, religious, or personal interests. “Omicron – said Biden – is scary, but we must not panic. We have science on our side, let’s use it”.

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