Multiple Biden administration officials on Sunday weighed in on the newly discovered omicron COVID-19 variant.
The variant, first discovered in South Africa, has already forced multiple nations to implement travel restrictions in response.
Read The Hill’s complete coverage below.
| Fauci: Omicron variant will ‘inevitably’ hit US |
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| Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that the omicron COVID-19 variant will “inevitably” hit the United States, noting that it has already been detected in several other countries.
“When you have a virus that has already gone to multiple countries, inevitably it will be here,” Fauci, who serves as President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said. |
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| Fauci defends omicron travel restrictions |
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| “Travel bans, when you have a highly transmissible virus, never completely … prevent it from coming into the country. No way that’s going to happen,” Anthony Fauci said. “But what you can do is you can delay it enough to get us better prepared.” |
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| Cohen: Weisselberg not ‘key’ to Trump case |
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| Michael Cohen said in an interview on Sunday that Allen Weisselberg, the longtime Trump Organization chief financial officer who was indicted earlier this year on tax-related charges, is not the “key” to investigations into former President Trump in New York. |
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