More than 100 million Americans could be infected during a potentially significant wave of COVID-19, poised to strike the United States this fall and winter, the Biden Administration has warned.
A senior administration official revealed the projection — equivalent to nearly a third of all Americans — to multiple outlets on Friday, as the United States inches ever closer to the 1 million coronavirus deaths. It also comes amid efforts to increase citizen preparedness as well a renewed push for additional Congressional funding for items like booster shots, antiviral treatments, testing and surveillance.
The estimate is based on an underlying assumption that lawmakers will not approves the $22 billion request, which would result in fewer tests, treatments and vaccines for the American people. It also does not account for the potential emergence of new, more contagious variants.
Last winter, between 130 and 140 million Americans were infected during a huge spike in coronavirus cases, fueled primarily by the omicron variant.
Experts have speculated that the upcoming surge will likely span a longer time frame than the last.
The Biden administration has also emphasized that while Americans should be aware, they need not necessarily panic about the forthcoming wave. Officials specifically pointed to recent medical developments, including Pfizer’s COVID pill called Paxlovid.
What’s more, both the New York-based drugmaker and its rival, Moderna, are working on updated vaccines aimed at being more protective and effective against newer variations of the virus. They could be ready as soon as the fall.
The Biden administration for weeks has been sounding the alarm about the need for additional funding and that it is necessary to continue the federal COVID-19 response.
Should the funding fail to come through, the administration official said their is a contingency plan in place. The money would instead come from the pot for testing, new treatments and vaccine education and outreach.
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It’s the mid-term variant. They’re gearing up for the mid-term injections since they are sensing defeat in the elections.
“White House Warns 100 Million Americans Could Be Infected By Covid This Fall”
#1. This treasonous, dishonest, unethical, destructive Joe “B“iden Obama administration’s White House has lost all of its credibility and trust.
I DO NOT believe ANYTHING from this Joe “B“iden Obama administration!
It is all Lies, Cons and Deceptions!
To the corrupted Biden Whitehouse, COVID is the cure, not the disease, for the enablement of the next Democrat stolen election. Like Chicken Little, they warn that the sky is falling, and Elon Musk’s truth satellites might just fall on twitter to hit them on the head if the pre-election debates become open for discussion and the Democrats can’t keep THE PEOPLE fear locked down in order to steal more mail-in votes of people too scared to go to the polls in person. Additional COVID funding just allows them to first redistribute the funds earmarked for COVID into more failed social experimentation and party enrichment, where the stealing of the Billions precedes the stealing of the election funded by the money of THE PEOPLE they always end up harming.
Many of us PREDICTED there’d be a new variant out, JUST IN TIME TO screw over the mid terms…
What about the wave going through NY right now. Why the Gov Hockal got it.
They’re readying us for the mandate to come down in mid October that in-person voting is unsafe, only mail-in ballots will be accepted. PS, they’ve taken the liberty of already filling your’s out!
Whether you want it or not…