The unvaccinated are facing a “winter of severe illness and death,” President Joe Biden has warned, and hospitals will be overwhelmed, as the omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S.
Speaking at a White House briefing on Thursday, Biden said omicron is “here now and it’s spreading and it’s gonna increase.”
“We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated — for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm,” he said. For now, delta remains the dominant variant in the U.S. but there are fears that it will be overtaken by omicron, and scientists are working to understand more about it.
A CDC advisory panel ended a Thursday meeting by recommending that Americans be given the Pfizer PFE, -2.95% or Moderna MRNA, +2.74% vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -2.56% shot that can cause rare but serious blood clots, the Associated Press reported. The strange clotting problem has caused nine confirmed deaths after J&J vaccinations, while the Pfizer and Moderna ones also seem more effective, the panel said.
Omicron is now dominant in Scotland and one in 50 people living in London had COVID last week and one in 60 people living in England was positive, according to the Office for National Statistics. The UK hit a record 88,376 positive cases on Thursday, according to government data, the most since any time during the pandemic.
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