{"id":1089964,"date":"2021-12-06T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1089964"},"modified":"2021-12-06T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:14:12","slug":"report-omicron-spreads-to-17-states-as-joe-biden-fails-to-shut-down-the-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-omicron-spreads-to-17-states-as-joe-biden-fails-to-shut-down-the-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Omicron Spreads to 17 States as Joe Biden Fails to &#039;Shut Down the Virus&#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\">30<\/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%2Freport-omicron-spreads-to-17-states-as-joe-biden-fails-to-shut-down-the-virus%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=1089964&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\">The omicron coronavirus variant has reportedly spread across 17 states as of Monday, defying President Joe Biden\u2019s promise to \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The variant, thought to have originated in South Africa, has spread to 17 states since Biden first alerted Americans it could reach the United States, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/12\/06\/covid-omicron-variant-live-updates\/\">reported<\/a>. Biden on November 27 was quick to enact travel bans on eight African counties, a reversal from his previous opinion against Donald Trump\u2019s coronavirus travel ban in 2020, which Biden criticized.<\/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 <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/12\/06\/covid-omicron-variant-live-updates\/#link-52ZYBC4KBRDGVLOK3XU3KDHUQ4\">reports<\/a>,&nbsp;\u201cPublic health officials, meanwhile, are tracking existing cases of omicron in the following states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, [and] Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/28\/flashback-ten-times-joe-biden-promised-shut-down-virus\/\">promised<\/a> to \u201cshut down the virus\u201d as many as ten times during his 2020 campaign for president, but has so far failed in the endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover,&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/28\/flashback-ten-times-joe-biden-promised-shut-down-virus\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in November the U.S. has sustained more coronavirus deaths under Biden than under Trump, despite vaccine availability.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The spread of the omicron variant comes as the southern border remains a hotbed for the virus. Reports <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/03\/fauci-says-omicron-likely-to-spread-at-border-no-matter-what\/\">indicate<\/a> \u201c18 percent of migrant families and 20 percent of unaccompanied minors tested positive for the coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19021994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the unchecked spread of the virus has not caused Dr. Anthony Fauci alarm; he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/03\/fauci-says-omicron-likely-to-spread-at-border-no-matter-what\/\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Fox News on Friday the virus will spread regardless of border security or testing measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think given what we know about the transmissibility and a likely transmissibility advantage of Omicron \u2026 once it gets in there, it will likely, under the radar screen, be spreading no matter what you do to keep people out or not,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the way viruses work,\u201d Fauci continued. \u201cWe saw that happen with Delta. I do hope that Omicron doesn\u2019t have that kind of advantage, particularly if it turns out to be serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The omicron coronavirus variant has reportedly spread across 17 states as of Monday, defying President Joe Biden\u2019s promise to \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d The variant, thought to have originated in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-1089964","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\/1089964","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089964\/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=1089964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}