{"id":1208073,"date":"2022-01-11T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208073"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:19:57","slug":"joe-biden-confident-his-team-on-the-right-track-on-coronavirus-as-hospitalizations-hit-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-confident-his-team-on-the-right-track-on-coronavirus-as-hospitalizations-hit-record-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden &#039;Confident&#039; His Team &#039;On the Right Track&#039; on Coronavirus as Hospitalizations Hit Record Levels"},"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\">32<\/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-confident-his-team-on-the-right-track-on-coronavirus-as-hospitalizations-hit-record-levels%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=1208073&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 defended his administration\u2019s handling of the coronavirus, even as the United States reached a record number of cases and hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m confident we are on the right track,\u201d Biden said to reporters at the White House.<\/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 pulled his mask down to his chin so that reporters could see him speak but ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliespiering\/status\/1480946707475185665\">admitted<\/a> it \u201clooked stupid\u201d and removed his mask entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said he was concerned about the pandemic \u201cworldwide\u201d but said he was pleased with the amount of federal help to states who were struggling with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>More than 145,900 people were in U.S. hospitals with coronavirus as of Tuesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-public.hhs.gov\/pages\/hospital-utilization\">data<\/a> from the Department of Health and Human Services, beating the previous pandemic peak set in January 2021.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cases of the virus have exploded, as John Hopkins University <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\">reports<\/a> more than 700,000 cases daily, roughly three times it was during the winter in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The president spoke to reporters about the battle with the virus as he left Washington, DC, to deliver a speech condemning election security laws in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Biden warned of \u201ca winter of severe illness and death\u201d but failed to meet increased demands for more testing, monoclonal antibody treatments, and newly developed anti-viral drugs approved to treat the virus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19212202\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19212202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/virus-outbreak-york-people-wait-tested-covid-19-times-square-york-monday-dec-20.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in a long line to get tested for COVID-19 in Times Square, New York, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The emergence of the omicron variant caught Biden off-guard over the Thanksgiving holiday as it now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/betsy_klein\/status\/1480940133557977092\">represents<\/a> 98.3 percent of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. last week.<\/p>\n<p>The White House continues to struggle with messaging on the virus, as Biden\u2019s former medical advisers penned a series of opinion articles criticizing his approach.<\/p>\n<p>The group, led by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, called for the administration to move away from \u201ca perpetual state of emergency\u201d and realize the \u201cnew normal\u201d of living with the virus and reducing its risks to the vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>The White House ignored their advice, repeatedly urging Americans to get triple-vaccinated to help reduce the severity of coronavirus symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden defended his administration\u2019s handling of the coronavirus, even as the United States reached a record number of cases and hospitalizations. \u201cI\u2019m confident we are on the right &#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-1208073","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\/1208073","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=1208073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208073\/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=1208073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}