that they be vaccinated or tests each week or go home. these rules keep workers safe. that will help keep businesses open. the people are vaccinated, tested, they re murder less likely to get sick and much less likely to spread to others. customers are more likely to shop because they know it s a safe environment. i know vaccination requirement are unpopular for many. not even popular for those that are anxious to get them. my administration has put them in to save your lives and the lives of others. 400,000 americans died from covid this calendar year. almost all are unvaccinated. almost all were preventible. it s going to save thousands of american lives. must also keep our k-12 schools
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only responsible thing to do. those were not vaccinated are causing hospitals to overrun again. and i ve spoken to the governor of new york. every covid 19 hospital needs someone with a heart attack, cancer and other illnesses may not get that bed and the life saving care that they need in the hospital. let me give it to you straight again. omicron is serious, potentially deadly business for unvaccinated people. let me be clear. thanks to our scientific community, americans were the first countries to get the vaccine. thanks to my administration and the hard work of americans, we let a roll out make america one of the world leaders and getting shots in arms. but uptake slowed the summer as vaccine resistance hardened. the unvaccinated responsible for their own choices.
to go get vaccinated. and if anything, a lot of the criticism of this administration has been that lettera, it this administration has been that letter a, it hasn t done a good enoughjob in persuading those who are not vaccinated, and in that president s estimate that we heard there, under40 president s estimate that we heard there, under 40 million people, independent estimates say 50-60,000,000 independent estimates say 50 60,000,000 americans are still not vaccinated. so the criticism is that he hasn t only not done a good enoughjob of getting that he hasn t only not done a good enough job of getting them vaccinated, but also he is focused on vaccination, preaching about vaccination and not doing enough about testing. now we heard here that he announced that from january, people will be able to get free at home testing. but until now, the us is not subsidised at home testing at all. it has been very difficult for people in many parts of this country to be able to get testing when th
vaccinated and is completely vulnerable. he recognizes the stark reality that since june 1 of this year on 200,000 americans have needlessly lost their lives because they refuse to get vaccinated. he knows that numbers could easily double. we could be up to a million american lives lost by the end of first quarter in 2022. and so a doubling of that 200,000 unvaccinated since june to 400,000, and so you know, i heard a note of anger, a note of frustration, and i feel and i sympathize with that because it has been exhausting trying to convince the country to get vaccinated. and we know that the latest forecasts showcases are climbing so rapidly, we may hit a peak that s higher than previous surges when it comes to just number of cases. testing is so critical here, gloria, and the president was asked a lot of questions about