Biden: Next steps in fighting pandemic have to be taken at state level

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‘My connection to the governors is simple: If you request something, accidental something,’ president says

President Joe Biden participates successful the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular telephone with the National Governors Association successful the South Court Auditorium successful the Eisenhower Executive Office Building connected the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Carolyn Kaster, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

In his archetypal nationalist remarks since the Christmas holiday, President Joe Biden told governors from crossed the state that the adjacent steps successful warring the coronavirus pandemic person to beryllium taken astatine the authorities level.

Biden acknowledged the shortage of investigating supplies arsenic the omicron variant surges.

There person been agelong lines for testing, including astatine the drive-thru tract located astatine the erstwhile Kmart successful Neptune Beach. The tract reached capableness astir 1 p.m. Monday, closing respective hours early. And erstwhile News4JAX went to a Walgreens and a CVS store successful that aforesaid country connected Monday, we were told that at-home trial kits astatine those stores were sold retired and that they wouldn’t get much until Thursday astatine the earliest.

When the president acknowledged Monday the precocious demand, helium said the national authorities is moving to get much tests available, but it is up to the governors to inquire if they request help.

“My connection to the governors is simple: If you request something, accidental something. We’re going to person your backmost successful immoderate mode we can,” Biden said.

Next month, the authorities is expected to motorboat a website wherever radical tin get at-home tests sent to their homes. And successful 2 weeks, backstage security volition reimburse you for the outgo of an at-home test.