Photo taken on December 30, 2021, in Youngstown, Ohio, of a packet of home tests for COVID-19. (AP Photo/David Dermer)
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The White House warned this Thursday of a possible wave of covid-19 for Christmas, for which it called on the US population to get vaccinated with the new booster dose “immediately”, since it is “the best protection” against the disease.
The US Government’s pandemic response coordinator, Ashish Jha, assured at a press conference that the covid “is no longer the destructive force it once was”, although the Government does not want this winter to resemble the before or two years ago.
In addition, the Government announced that it will re-enable the website to request up to four free covid tests per household starting next week, an initiative that had been closed in the summer.
At the moment, Joe Biden’s Executive is not proposing alternative measures to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus, such as the use of masks, since they believe that it is “in a very different place from two years ago.”
Likewise, Jha reported that collaboration with state governors and local leaders is being increased so that they have available federal support to open more vaccination centers and expand covid testing programs.
For her part, the White House spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, asserted that they have “the tools” to face this “new face of the pandemic”, although she stressed the need for the population to be vaccinated with this last dose against the virus. virus.
With more than a million deaths, the United States is the country in the world with the highest number of deaths from covid-19. 69% of the population has received both doses of the vaccine in this country, where the response to the pandemic has been highly politicized.
This story was originally published on December 15, 2022 2:01 p.m.
Source: El Nuevo Herald
