How does the US fight the proliferation of omicron? – Kommersant FM – Kommersant

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Washington will purchase half a billion COVID-19 tests for home use and distribute to the public. In hospitals, additional beds are deployed and the military is sent on duty. And President Joe Biden asks Americans to revaccinate and even cites Donald Trump as an example of his eternal opponent. The American media analyzed the speech of the head of state, which he devoted to the fight against the pandemic, and came to the conclusion that so far the omicron is winning. Even Biden himself was in danger. He was in close contact with a White House employee who was later diagnosed with the coronavirus. But the president refuses to isolate himself. Read more about this in the review of the foreign press on Kommersant FM.

Americans will be given free COVID-19 tests. They can be ordered on a specially created website with home delivery, writes The Wall Street Journal… These measures are associated with the active spread of the omicron strain. In the country as a whole, it accounts for 73% of infections, but in some states, in particular, in New York, this share reaches 90%.

Joe Biden calls: “We need to do more! We must do better! ” And it sounds like an admission of a desperate situation, the authors note. Bloomberg… Joe Biden had a hard time in this performance. He should have called for active measures without causing panic. But it seems that he is losing to his main enemy, on which his election program was built, the newspaper writes. COVID-19 is still not defeated, and Biden is forced to present vaccinations from the presidential chair as a patriotic act that every American should join.

On the White House website a new strategy for dealing with the omicron is described. Additional staff are being deployed to hospitals across the country and new beds are being deployed. The President instructed the Minister of Defense to train a thousand military doctors and nurses to mobilize if necessary. The auxiliary force should be ready by January-February. In hospitals, ambulances will be constantly on duty, which, in the event of overcrowding in one hospital, will transport patients to another.

The Associated Press writes that the omicron is still a mystery to scientists. It is not even known whether the disease progresses more severely. The US Health Safety Center predicts that there will be a surge in the incidence of coronavirus during the Christmas holidays, and this cannot be avoided and fully vaccinated. But the worst will be for unvaccinated people and those who are already infected with the “delta”. They can seriously undermine a country’s health system. Presumably, booster vaccination can provide protection. Biden, for example, said that he had received a booster vaccine and now he is not afraid of even close contact with the infected. A few days ago, as it turned out, he spent about half an hour in the same plane with the patient and nevertheless feels great, does not plan to isolate himself.

In his speech, Biden also praised Donald Trump for undergoing revaccination. And this is a rare case when these two agree on something, notes CNN… According to research by the US Center for Control and Prevention, booster vaccines reduce the risk of death from COVID-19 by 20 times.

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