Biden’s Omicron Battle Plan Announced

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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President Biden lays out his Omicron battle plan, announcing an additional 10,000 testing sites beyond the 20,000 the White House points to nationwide, deploying 1,000 more military members to help hospitals if they become overburdened again and mailing half a billion free Covid home testing kits to Americans next month.

Plus: NYC offers $100 to get boosted by New Year’s, Trump looks to the anniversary of January 6 to push election lies, Joe Manchin is in talks with fellow Democrats after their fiery response to his “No” on Build Back Better and sports leagues search for a way forward amid the Omicron surge.

Guests: Dr Ashish Jha, Bill de Blasio, Robert Costa and Bob Costas.

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0:00.0	The news continues, so let's hand it over to Michael Spurkhanish and CNN tonight, Michael.
0:07.0	John, thank you.
0:08.0	I am Michael Spurkhanish.
0:09.0	Welcome to CNN Tonight.
0:10.6	We heard the president lay out his Omicron battle plans today.
0:14.5	He's once again telling Americans not to panic while urging the unvaccinated to stop putting
0:19.5	all of our lives in danger and just go get the shot.
0:23.0	But what makes him think he's going to reach them this time, almost one year into his
0:27.8	presidency.
0:30.8	Almost everyone who has died from COVID-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated.
0:36.4	I'm honest to God, believe it's your patriotic duty.
0:39.6	The choice can be the difference between life or death.
0:42.9	Please get vaccinated.
0:47.2	Here's the alarming truth for the president.
0:49.8	The people who should be the most concerned about this new Omicron wave, they aren't.
0:56.1	The vaccinated in America are more scared of getting COVID and falling seriously ill
1:01.3	than the unvaccinated by this new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
1:06.9	52% of the vaccine adults say they fear getting very sick from coronavirus.
1:13.6	That's 10% more than the non-immunized who ought to be the most concerned.
1:19.5	And according to a Kaiser count, no speech from President Biden or threat of death is
1:24.5	going to sway 48% of the unvaxed.
1:28.0	About half of adult holdouts in America say nothing will convince them to get immunized.
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