President will deploy 1k troops to hospitals, ramp up testing sites but tell vaccinated Americans they DON’T need to cancel Christmas in Omicron game plan

  • President Joe Biden will address the nation Tuesday on his plans for combatting the latest coronavirus surge
  • He will again stress vaccines and boosters, and issue a stark warning to Americans who haven’t got a shot 
  • The government is buying 500 million home tests kits to be provided free to the public 
  • Two weeks ago, Jen Psaki rejected the idea and snipped: ‘Should we just send one to every American?’
  • He will also deploy 1,000 military personnel to hospitals and set up federally run testing sites 
  • The administration is not calling for any new lockdowns or travel restrictions and will instead address existing steps like masking indoors, testing, and vaccines 
  • Biden will speak on Tuesday afternoon less than 24 hours after U.S. confirmed first Omicron death 
  • On Monday night the CDC confirmed that Omicron is the dominant COVID strain, making up 73% of cases 
  • States like New York and New Jersey in particular are getting slammed by the new variant 
  • Hospitalizations have not kept pace, though, only growing six per cent in the last two weeks Â