Watch live: Biden Covid team holds press briefing as U.S. daily cases begin to level off
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President Joe Biden‘s Covid-19 response team plans to maintain a press briefing Friday the place officers will announce a new partnership with prime enterprise teams to assist with the nationwide pandemic response, a senior administration official instructed CNBC.
The function of the partnership is to name on companies of all sizes “to promote public health measures to help reduce barriers to vaccinations for employees, and to help amplify public health messaging around masking and vaccinations to their customers and communities,” the official instructed CNBC. The New York Times reported on the partnership earlier
The information convention comes as the U.S. studies a slight plateau in nationwide Covid-19 cases. The nation is now reporting a weekly common of roughly 73,376 new cases a day, a slight uptick in contrast with per week in the past, in accordance to a CNBC evaluation of knowledge compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. peaked at shut to 250,000 cases per day in early January following the winter holidays.
Biden’s prime well being officers are warning that new, extremely transmissible variants of the coronavirus, particularly the B.1.1.7 pressure first recognized within the U.Ok., may delay the nation’s management of the pandemic.
— CNBC’s Will Feuer contributed to this report.
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