{"id":1059256,"date":"2021-11-27T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059256"},"modified":"2021-11-27T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:13:44","slug":"joe-biden-voices-great-concern-about-omicron-variant-that-spreads-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-voices-great-concern-about-omicron-variant-that-spreads-rapidly\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Voices &#039;Great Concern&#039; About Omicron Variant that &#039;Spreads Rapidly&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-voices-great-concern-about-omicron-variant-that-spreads-rapidly%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden spoke about the emerging Omicron variant of the coronavirus on Friday evening after leveling a travel ban on several African countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know a lot about the variant except that it is of great concern; it seems to spread rapidly,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president said he chose to implement a travel ban to be \u201ccautious,\u201d even though he denounced former President Donald Trump\u2019s travel bans as xenophobic and racist when he ran for president in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Biden spoke to reporters while touring the small town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and attending the Christmas tree lighting ceremony as his extended Thanksgiving vacation continues.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18914682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236824054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18914682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236824054-1024x702-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"679\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden leaves a bookstore November 26, 2021, on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, where he spends the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend (MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said the best response from Americans to the new variant of the virus was for everyone five and older to get vaccinated and get their booster shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, we always talk about whether this is about freedom, but I think it\u2019s a patriotic responsibility to do that,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The president said he was not planning to level a new vaccine mandate, his existing one currently held up in court.<\/p>\n<p>He said the stock market plunge in response to news of the coronavirus variant was \u201cexpected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey always do when there\u2019s something \u2014 when COVID arises,\u201d Biden replied.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he was worried about the stock market, Biden replied, \u201cNot at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d the reporter replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause why would it?\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden spoke about the emerging Omicron variant of the coronavirus on Friday evening after leveling a travel ban on several African countries. \u201cWe don\u2019t know a lot about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}