Regardless of all the crime, the virus is back on the march.

The lead starts right now.

The Biden White House announcing a slew of new steps today to try to slow the spread

of coronavirus, including the new variants, while also trying to urge folks not to panic.

And President Biden needs her vote to get his agenda passed this hour.

The Democratic Senator Kiersten Sinema of Arizona sits down with CNN for a rare national

TV interview.

And then, red flags raised in Michigan's share for viewing new details today about why

the teenage suspects parents were called to the principal's office just hours before

the deadly high school shooter.

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we start today with the health lead and the Biden

administration saying it's pulling out all the stops to accelerate our way out of this

pandemic and slow the spread of Omicron, that new variant that health officials still

know so little about new evidence today suggests, however, that the new variant clearly

is spreading in the U.S. President Biden went to the National Institutes of Health this

afternoon to announce his new plan, launching a national campaign for boosters, setting up

family vaccination sites, expanding COVID testing, making those at home test kits free,

either reimbursed by insurance or provided by the government for those who do not have

insurance.

Also today, those proposed CDC rules for international travel became official, and now everyone

flying to the United States, including American citizens who are fully vaccinated, needs proof

of a negative COVID test taken one day before departure instead of three days.

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