Biden Vows Schools and Businesses Will Remain Open in Omicron Speech

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President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday to not impose lockdowns on schools and businesses this winter as part of his response to the Omicron variant.

Omicron is now believed to be the prominent strain of the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, in the United States.

In an address Dec. 21, the president said that while the new variant is expected to increase the number of COVID-19 cases nationally among both vaccinated and unvaccinated populations in the coming weeks, the federal government will not order any new lockdowns.

โ€œAnother question folks are asking is are we going back to March 2020,โ€ Biden said. โ€œThe answer is absolutely no.โ€

In 2020, while President Donald Trump was in office, governors across the country imposed strict lockdown measures to try to mitigate the spread of the virus.

Biden cited the nationโ€™s vaccination rate and the federal stockpile of personal protective equipment for hospitals as reasons to not lockdown this winter.

โ€œLast year we thought the only way to keep children safe was to close your schools,โ€ said Biden. โ€œToday we know more, and we have more resources to keep those schools open.โ€

He added: โ€œToday we donโ€™t have to shut down schools because of a case of COVID-19. Now if a student tests positives other students can take the test and stay in the classroom if theyโ€™re not infected rather than closing the whole school or having to quarantine.โ€

Biden also used part of his speech to applaud a recent victory in federal appeals court for his vaccine mandateโ€”a rule through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to require all employers with 100 or more employees to require proof of vaccination or weekly negative tests of all employees.

โ€œThese rules are going to help keep workers safe, and keeping workers safe will help keep businesses open,โ€ he said, maintaining the rule is legal and effective despite being โ€œunpopular.โ€

Byย Nick Ciolino

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