house, but if you re vaccinated and boosted, you are highly protected. you know, be concerned about omicron, but don t be alarmed. if you re unvaccinated, you have some reason to be alarmed. many of you will, you know, you ll experience severe illness in many cases if you get covid-19 if you re not vaccinated. some will die, needlessly die. unvaccinated are taking up hospital beds and crowding emergency rooms and intensive care units. that s displacing other people who need access to those hospitals. so please, please, please get vaccinated now. you know, we ve reduced the number of american adults without any shots from 90 million to about 35 million in the past six months, but there s still 35 million people not vaccinated. and let me be absolutely clear.
among vaccinated and workplaces across america including here at the white house but if you are vaccinated and boosted you are highly protected. you know, be concerned about omicron but don t be alarmed. if you are unvaccinated, you have some reason to be alarmed. many of you will, you know, you ll experience severe illness in many cases if you get covid if you are not vaccinated. some will die needlessly die. unvaccinated are taking up hospital beds and crowding emergency rooms and intensive care units. that s displacing other people that need access to those hospitals. so please, please, please get vaccinated now. we have reduced the number of american adults without any shots from 90 million to about 35 million in the past six months. still 35 million people not
argument. it will always be there and when we have rhino virus and flu virus. 10 to 25% of the population will contract a respiratory virus. you can use the excuse you don t want to leave the home because of the pathogens but we have to move on. harris: president biden put the omicron surge on the shoulders of americans who are unvaccinated. the president has repeatedly done this despite a rash of breakthrough cases. let s watch. president biden: there is no excuse. no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we have to make more progress. for patients who still haven t gotten your kids vaccinated, please get them vaccinated. harris: let s pause there. why does he keep saying that? he says the vaccine as i understand it is one of our weapons in all of this. i don t understand why he says
record retired narratives like this. if you are vaccinated and boosted coming you are highly protected. you know, be concerned about omicron, but don t be alarmed. and if you are unvaccinated coming you have some reason to be alarmed. there is no excuse, no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. if you are vaccinated and boosted, you may get covid, but you are highly protected against severe illness. greg: no excuse. of the president not spending much time on his testing failure, people forced to wait in line and can t get at home tests. but joe biden claims he is making progress. i know this remains frustrating, believe me, it is frustrating to me. but we are making improvements. with more capacity of her in person tests we should see weight line shortened and more appointments freed up, google covid tests near me to find the
that an entire pandemic at this point a surge rests on the shoulders of people. i think politicians look for groups to blame for problems and this is a group that has been heavily blamed despite a new danish study that shows the transmission among unvaccinated was lower. i wouldn t encourage people to avoid vaccination but in europe people who are unvaccinated largely because they have natural immunity and public health officials recognize that. so to put this all on the unvaccinated is basically part of a blame game and we really should recognize that s not the right lexicon. the more medically precise one is we have the immune and non-immune and high risk and low risk. kids are ultralow risk. harris: i want to get back to the white house, too. the press secretary jen psaki was defending some of the choices and policies that we know are failing. particularly the huge delay in getting 500 million home tests sent out to americans.