“I wanted to follow up on the President’s speech tomorrow. You mentioned schools and private sectors as two areas of focus but you’ve also been very, you know, firm in maintaining independence between the federal government and what schools and the private sector does,” a reporter stated through the press briefing. “So, tomorrow, should we just anticipate the President to say much of what he’s already said to urge those entities to take action? Or will there be something new that’s actionable?”
“There will be new steps the President announces tomorrow,” Psaki replied. “Absolutely.”
“And will any of those new steps influence the average American’s day-to-day life?” the reporter asked. “Should we expect any new mitigation recommendations, as an example?”
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“It depends on if you’re vaccinated or not,” Psaki replied. “There are — there are six new — there are six steps the President is announcing. There will be new components, as I noted and you noted. Some of that will be related to access to testing. Some will be related to mandates. Some will be related to how we ensure kids are protected in schools. And we’ll have more — we’ll preview more tomorrow as all the pieces are finalized. But there will be new components that, sure, will of course impact people across the country. But we’re also all working together to get the virus under control, to return to our normal lives. And I know many people, I’m sure, are looking forward to hearing what the President has to say.”
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The president indicated last week, following the jobs report, that his administration is looking for ways to make it safer for kids to return to school and for workers to return to the office.
Psaki said more will be previewed Thursday when the components are finalized.
Biden’s upcoming remarks comes as cases and hospitalizations have increased in areas around the country, in large part due to the highly contagious delta variant.
Meanwhile, we can now see numerous companies asking their employees to get vaccinated.
Not every employee at Houston’s Museum District Child Care Center was as eager to get vaccinated, some of the other 15 women working there had issues with the vaccine’s potential side effects, its effectiveness, whether it was adequately tested throughout its rushed production and if it caused pregnancy complications.
Weeks passed, the vaccine became more widely available and more employees got inoculated.
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