The White House Says It Is Prepared To Respond Quickly To New COVID Variants

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Biden is asking Congress to make new treatment options free and immediately available to patients who test positive. The administration says wastewater monitoring will help localities respond nimbly to outbreaks and that widespread vaccine adoption will help to reduce the lethality of future waves. The new plan comes as at a time when most states are easing masking and gathering restrictions and preparing to embrace a return to normal,

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and health correspondent Allison Aubrey.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is BJ.
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0:02.8	And we just started reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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0:10.6	What an excellent quest to go on.
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0:16.6	Things may have changed by the time you hear this,
0:18.6	but we will still be on the way to the Lollim Mountain
0:20.6	with Bilbo and his friends.
0:25.6	This time's day up is just like catnet for Scott Detrov.
0:29.3	I love it. I love it.
0:30.9	Very targeted.
0:32.7	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:35.1	I'm Scott Detrov. I cover the White House.
0:37.2	And I'm Tamara Keith. I also cover the White House.
0:40.1	And we've got Allison Aubrey back with us.
0:42.4	Again, our health correspondent, Hey Allison.
0:44.5	Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
0:46.5	And I think we all know what we're talking about.
0:48.1	Since you are on the show, we are talking about COVID
0:50.7	because the White House unveiled a new roadmap for the pandemic.
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