{"id":1137196,"date":"2021-12-21T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1137196"},"modified":"2021-12-21T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T15:20:09","slug":"biden-harris-clash-over-who-is-to-blame-for-current-covid-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-harris-clash-over-who-is-to-blame-for-current-covid-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, Harris Clash Over Who Is To Blame For Current COVID Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-harris-clash-over-who-is-to-blame-for-current-covid-spike%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=1137196&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>President Joe Biden has been vicious to the unvaccinated. Sure, \u201cMy Body, My Choice\u201d is deployed by Biden and other Democrats to advocate for abortion, but when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine, uh, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death \u2014 if you\u2019re unvaccinated \u2014 for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they\u2019ll soon overwhelm,\u201d Biden said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,\u201d Biden said back in September during an address to the nation. \u201cAnd it\u2019s caused by the fact that despite America having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months free vaccines have been available in 80,000 different locations, we still have nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Vice President Kamala Harris has a different take. She hasn\u2019t been quick to blame the unvaccinated for the recent spike of cases in the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think this is a moment to talk about fault,\u201d Harris said Monday during an <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/harris-contrasts-biden-refuses-blame-011737034.html\">interview<\/a> with CBS News. \u201cIt is no one\u2019s fault that this virus hit our shores or hit the world. \u2026 It is more about individual power and responsibility and the decisions that everyone has the choice to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris talked about the \u201cpower\u201d Americans have when battling COVID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the power today to go out and if you\u2019ve not been boosted, go get boosted. The power today to go and get vaccinated,\u201d Harris said. \u201cAnd that will have an impact on where we end up tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 million Americans are fully vaccinated, meaning they\u2019ve taken two doses of a vaccine, <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/covid-vaccinations?country=USA\">according<\/a> to Our World In Data. But that\u2019s only 61% of the U.S. population (while another 12% have taken one shot).<\/p>\n<p>While Biden says his team is taking every action it can to battle a new outbreak of a variant, Omicron, Harris frankly admitted that the administration dropped the ball.<\/p>\n<p>In another interview, Harris conceded that the Biden administration didn\u2019t see the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants coming, but appeared to place the blame on the medical community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t see Delta coming. I think most scientists did not \u2013 upon whose advice and direction we have relied \u2013 didn\u2019t see Delta coming,\u201d Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/dec\/18\/kamala-harris-la-times-interview-covid-variants-vaccines\">said<\/a>.&nbsp;\u201cWe didn\u2019t see Omicron coming. And that\u2019s the nature of what this awful virus has been, which as it turns out, has mutations and variants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Harris did chide the unvaccinated. \u201cThe biggest threat still to the American people is the threat to the unvaccinated. And most people who believe in the efficacy of the vaccine and the seriousness of the virus have been vaccinated. That troubles me deeply,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still the question as to whether \u201cfully vaccinated\u201d now means two shots and a booster. And Biden last week was confused about how many boosters have been administered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty-seven -\u2013 excuse me \u2013- five hundred and seventy \u2013- excuse me \u2013- I don\u2019t want to read -\u2013 I\u2019m not sure I got the right number. The \u2014 the total number of boosters is what?\u201d Biden said, turning to top U.S. immunologist Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty-seven million,\u201d Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty-seven million boosters \u2014 one million a day,\u201d Biden said. \u201cSo \u2014 but the whole point is: Omicron is here, it\u2019s going to start to spread much more rapidly in the beginning of the year, and the only real protection is to get your shots. If you get one shot \u2014 if you haven\u2019t gotten it yet \u2014 it\u2019ll help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has been vicious to the unvaccinated. Sure, \u201cMy Body, My Choice\u201d is deployed by Biden and other Democrats to advocate for abortion, but when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine, uh, not so much.\u201cFor unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death \u2014 if you\u2019re unvaccinated \u2014 for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they\u2019ll soon overwhelm,\u201d Biden said on Monday.\u201cThis is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,\u201d Biden said back in September during an address to the nation. \u201cAnd it\u2019s caused by the fact that despite America having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months free vaccines have been available in 80,000 different locations, we still have nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot.\u201dBut Vice President Kamala Harris has a different take. She hasn\u2019t been quick to blame the unvaccinated for the recent spike of cases in the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201cI don\u2019t think this is a moment to talk about fault,\u201d Harris said Monday during an interview with CBS News. \u201cIt is no one\u2019s fault that this virus hit our shores or hit the world. \u2026 It is more about individual power and responsibility and the decisions that everyone has the choice to make.\u201dHarris talked about the \u201cpower\u201d Americans have when battling COVID.\u201cWe have the power today to go out and if you\u2019ve not been boosted, go get boosted. The power today to go and get vaccinated,\u201d Harris said. \u201cAnd that will have an impact on where we end up tomorrow.\u201dMore than 200 million Americans are fully vaccinated, meaning they\u2019ve taken two doses of a vaccine, according to Our World In Data. But that\u2019s only 61% of the U.S. population (while another 12% have taken one shot).While Biden says his team is taking every action it can to battle a new outbreak of a variant, Omicron, Harris frankly admitted that the administration dropped the ball.In another interview, Harris conceded that the Biden administration didn\u2019t see the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants coming, but appeared to place the blame on the medical community.\u201cWe didn\u2019t see Delta coming. I think most scientists did not \u2013 upon whose advice and direction we have relied \u2013 didn\u2019t see Delta coming,\u201d Harris said.\u00a0\u201cWe didn\u2019t see Omicron coming. And that\u2019s the nature of what this awful virus has been, which as it turns out, has mutations and variants.\u201dAnd Harris did chide the unvaccinated. \u201cThe biggest threat still to the American people is the threat to the unvaccinated. And most people who believe in the efficacy of the vaccine and the seriousness of the virus have been vaccinated. That troubles me deeply,\u201d she said.There\u2019s still the question as to whether \u201cfully vaccinated\u201d now means two shots and a booster. And Biden last week was confused about how many boosters have been administered.\u201cFifty-seven -\u2013 excuse me \u2013- five hundred and seventy \u2013- excuse me \u2013- I don\u2019t want to read -\u2013 I\u2019m not sure I got the right number. The \u2014 the total number of boosters is what?\u201d Biden said, turning to top U.S. immunologist Anthony Fauci.\u201cFifty-seven million,\u201d Fauci said.\u201cFifty-seven million boosters \u2014 one million a day,\u201d Biden said. \u201cSo \u2014 but the whole point is: Omicron is here, it\u2019s going to start to spread much more rapidly in the beginning of the year, and the only real protection is to get your shots. If you get one shot \u2014 if you haven\u2019t gotten it yet \u2014 it\u2019ll help.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"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-1137196","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\/1137196","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137196\/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=1137196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}