The president will address the nation Thursday where he will kick off an urgent campaign to get all Americans immunized so that the virus can be combated without more lockdowns.
President Joe Biden flew to the National Institutes of Health Thursday, where he touted new plans to combat covid this winter and joked that Dr. Anthony Fauci was president.
Other countries are also tightening their pandemic travel restrictions, but the US appears to now have among the strictest testing requirements for international travelers so far.
Fauci and Obama made a surprise visit to Kimball Elementary School in D.C. to aid in COVID vaccination efforts. The leaders also tried to combat the stigma against getting the jabs.