President Joe Biden on Wednesday criticized “bipartisan” leaders for casting doubt on COVID-19 vaccines as he faces a new wave.
Biden, speaking at a meeting with his Council of Science and Technology Advisers, opened his speech by urging lawmakers to fund the government so other people don’t miss out on health care amid the recent surge in coronavirus cases.
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The president, who recently received another COVID-19 booster, then urged leaders of both parties and outside government to moderate “incendiary” comments about the coronavirus.
“What leaders say matters, in terms of what people accept as truth and the things they’re not sure about,” Biden said. “They’ve noticed what happened with the fitness crisis that we’ve been through and that has burdened us for a million people, and as time goes on, more and more voices are saying, ‘no, no, no, you don’t want to do it. ‘Take this picture. “
Biden’s comments appear to target former President Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2024, and Democratic presidential nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“We are now facing a new strain of COVID and we have answers,” he continued. “But I urge actors in public life, political parties and non-political parties, to be wary of some of the incendiary things they say about this, because people’s lives are at stake. “
Although Biden is expected to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024, he is governed by Kennedy, whose modesty between liberals and conservatives is likely due to his strong anti-vaccine stance.
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