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Biden’s Covid Response Comes Under Fire in Senate Hearing
- Republicans take aim at communications, access to testing
- Omicron threatens to burden health-care system, Walensky says
Rochelle Walensky, left, speaks with Anthony Fauci before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Jan. 11.
Photographer: Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg
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The Biden administration came under fire for its pandemic response and communications as the omicron variant continues to drive U.S. Covid-19 cases.
Conflicting guidance on issues such as boosters and testing have left the public confused about how best to protect themselves, Republican Senator Richard Burr, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said in a hearing Tuesday.