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0micron has exploded in the united states. in the space of two weeks, it s gone from less than i% of new cases to almost three quarters. so, for a second time in less than a month, president biden has announced more measures, extra vaccine sites and, in a change of direction, free home testing kits. i m announcing today the federal government will purchase one half billion that s not million, billion with a b additional at home rapid tests with delivery starting in january. we ll be getting these tests to americans for free. those free at home tests won t be available until next month, so testing sites like this recreation centre are opening up all over the country. and 1,000 military, nurses and doctors are being readied in case the hospitals get overwhelmed. while cases have been rising sharply, one encouraging sign is that hospitalisations haven t gone up anything like as much as they did earlier in the pandemic.
that s not million, - billion with a b additional at home rapid tests with delivery- starting injanuary. we ll be getting these tests to americans for free. - those free at home tests won t be available until next month, so testing sites like this recreation centre are opening up all over the country. and 1000 military, nurses and doctors are being readied in case the hospitals get overwhelmed. while cases have been rising sharply, one encouraging sign is that hospitalisations haven t gone up anything like as much as they did earlier in the pandemic. but infections amongst the unvaccinated could change all that. we ve first got to get the 50 million or so people who are eligible to be vaccinated who ve not gotten vaccinated. that is critical. if you want to keep the level of spread in the country as low as possible, which would get us back to some degree of normality, you ve got to get those unvaccinated people vaccinated.
in less than a month, president biden has announced more measures, extra vaccine sites and, in a change of direction, free home testing kits. i m announcing today the federal government will purchase one half billion that s not million, billion with a b additional at home rapid tests with delivery starting in january. we ll be getting these tests to americans for free. those free at home tests won t be available until next month, so testing sites like this recreation centre are opening up all over the country. and 1,000 military, nurses and doctors are being readied in case the hospitals get overwhelmed. while cases have been rising sharply, one encouraging sign is that hospitalisations haven t gone up anything like as much as they did earlier in the pandemic. but infections amongst the unvaccinated could change all that. we ve first got to get the 50 million or so people
additional at home rapid tests with delivery starting in january. we ll be getting these tests to americans for free. those free at home tests won t be available until next month, so testing sites like this recreation centre are opening up all over the country. and 1,000 military, nurses and doctors are being readied in case the hospitals get overwhelmed. while cases have been rising sharply, one encouraging sign is that hospitalisations haven t gone up anything like as much as they did earlier in the pandemic. but infections amongst the unvaccinated could change all that. we ve first got to get the 50 million or so people who are eligible to be vaccinated who ve not gotten vaccinated. that is critical. if you want to keep the level of spread in the country as low as possible, which would get us back to some degree of normality, you ve got to get those unvaccinated people vaccinated. in new york, they ve seen record numbers of cases