Prognosis
Surgeon General Defends Biden’s Response to Steep Covid-19 Surge
- Murthy says omicron spike outstripped even increased testing
- Cites ‘tough time’ in next weeks as outbreak likely to worsen
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy defended the Biden administration’s response to the surge of Covid-19 infections caused by the omicron variant, conceding though that health officials need to “close that gap” in the severe shortage of testing.
“We have more to do,” Murthy said on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that the spike in infections outstripped what he said was an eight-fold increase in testing over the last month.