Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials

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• White House: Maximum pressure campaign on North Korea "has clearly been effective"
• Russia’s push to capture major cities stalls, but civilian costs grow amid shelling

And we are prepared to get boosters to all adults as they are eligible — six months after the second shot for Pfizer and Moderna or two months after J&J. This slide makes it a little bit more graphic. These three boxes here show what the effect is on hospitalization; severe, in the middle; and death, on the right.

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And that’s true of Democrats, it’s true of Republicans, it’s true of independents. And that’s what’s shown through in the votes, both in the House and the 79-vote aye vote outcome we saw in the Senate last night. However, if you look at two weeks post the third dose, note the substantial degree of elevation of the neutralizing titer well within the range of neutralizing Omicron. And most recent data from our own Vaccine Research Center, which is the first in a series of data that will be coming out over the next few days and be published in a preprint server next week, this is a sampling of the data. If you look on the left-hand part of the slide, this is 21 days after the second dose of the Pfizer product.

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Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said it’s “absurd” to pretend that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was not involved in the North Korea discussions Thursday and defended reports that the Pentagon was left out of the loop. A second reporter later asked if Trump remembers speaking with his lawyer about the arbitration involving Stormy Daniels, or meeting her. A reporter pressed further and asked if McMaster would leave "anytime soon." Earlier this month, an administration official told CNN McMaster could leave the White House by the end of March.

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As is shown here, this is not looking at booster, it’s looking at the effectiveness of a two-dose Pfizer vaccine against the Omicron variant. But longer term, it remains uncertain if Ukraine — after months of losses in Eastern Ukraine and sustaining massive damage to its infrastructure — can make enough progress to sustain American political support before burning through the latest influx of money. When a reporter asked where it might happen, noting the White House wouldn't want to hold the meeting in "downtown Pyongyang," Sanders said. "We won't have those conversations between me and the press. Those conversations will take place at a much higher level." White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was just asked why Trump accepted the meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un without "preconditions," such as the release of the three Americans that are being held there.

White House Daily Briefing January 31, 2024 - C-SPAN

White House Daily Briefing January 31, 2024.

Posted: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

Statement of President Joe Biden on the Passing of U.S. Congressman Donald Payne Jr.

Sarah Sanders said President Trump's "maximum pressure campaign" is what ultimately brought North Korea's Kim Jong Un to the table. President Trump was upset with Sanders over her responses Wednesday regarding his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, a source close to the White House told CNN. "I don't. We've addressed this extensively and I don't have anything else to add." Biden and Xi spoke for nearly two hours as the White House looked to deter Beijing from providing military or economic assistance for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

On the right-hand part of the slide, one month after the third dose, take a look now again at the purple bar, which has gone up substantially from the 6, which is circled on the left, to 154. Again, this is one of a number of representative studies. Clearly, because — first slide please — clearly because we have an intense interest on the evolving scenario with Omicron, a number of studies have been done throughout the country and the world to take a look at how we might prepare in the context of vaccinations. And I’ll divide it up into two components. Opt in to send and receive text messages from President Biden.

To be clear, the goal of vaccination requirements is to protect workers, not to punish them. So tonight’s deadline is not an endpoint or a cliff. We continue to see more and more federal employees getting their shots. Ahead of tonight’s deadline, the federal government has achieved 95 percent compliance and 90 percent of the 3.5 million federal workers are already vaccinated. So we are successfully implementing vaccination requirements for the largest workforce in the United States, with federal employees in every part of the nation and around the world.

White House: Maximum pressure campaign on North Korea "has clearly been effective"

And, you know, we are insisting that that happen, in addition to ensuring the safety and protection of the people of Rafah. Until recently, as we’ve said on many occasions, we were unable to provide these ATACMS because of readiness concerns. But behind the scenes, the administration across the board has worked relentlessly to address those concerns.

The safety data showed that serious adverse events after a booster dose are rare and, in general, people had fewer reactions after their third dose than after their second dose. Reactions that did occur included the previously seen sore arms, headaches, and joint aches. We’re not saying we do not want TikTok to exist. We’re not saying that we do not want Americans to use TikTok.

And Dr. Kessler, you know, last month sort of hinted that that was sort of under consideration. I mean, are you considering using the DPA to take action against Moderna for technology transfer? We started with about 20,000 sites for adolescents — sorry, for 5- to 11-year-olds to get vaccinated — places like pediatrician’s offices, children’s hospitals, in place- — in local pharmacies where parents and kids are comfortable, and trusted providers. Increasingly, tests are being sold in single packs, making them more convenient and affordable. So overall, we will have about a half billion tests per month by the end of this year. About half of those will be the increasingly popular and convenient at-home tests, so this is well timed for the holiday season.

Even with a burst of new weapons and ammunition, it’s unlikely Ukraine will immediately recover after months of setbacks. We would encourage people who gather to do so safely after they’ve been fully vaccinated, as we’ve been saying for months now. And so, I do think that this is very different because we actually have the tools to prevent the vast majority of cases.

Roll up your sleeves and get protected or boosted, especially if you will be around those who are at higher risk or children under the age of five who are not yet eligible for vaccination. I have heard from many families who are now able to reunite because of the protection from COVID-19 vaccines. There is certainly much to be thankful for this year. For me and my family, we will reflect on how deeply thankful we are that we can safely be together. Data updated and posted today on CDC’s COVID Data Tracker continue to show that unvaccinated people are six times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated individuals. And most tragic are the vaccine-preventable deaths we are still seeing from this disease.

And 12 days or more after the third booster dose of a BioNTech, they had a diminution in the risk of infection of 11.3-fold difference and a rate of severe illness was lowered by a factor of almost 20. In this updated figure on COVID Data Tracker, the blue line shows rates of hospitalization among the unvaccinated and the green line among the vaccinated through September 25th. The downtick in hospitalizations of the blue line is because of decreasing case rates towards the end of September, and the very slight uptick in the green line represents waning immunity, for which we are recommending boosters. Because it would have been the toughest, it would have been the fairest if it was — if the President had an opportunity to sign that into law — you know, law that we had seen in some time.

Over the past six months, Ukraine has had to ration ammunition, and that has resulted in the loss of some territory in the east, including the city of Avdiivka. But it was also a reminder, in getting to see her, that there are still Americans and others being held hostage by Hamas. And we’re working day in, day out to ensure all of them also are able to get safely home to their loved ones.