Biden says vaccinated people shouldn't be 'alarmed' by COVID-19
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President Biden today said that those who have been vaccinated "should not be alarmed by COVID-19," but those who haven't been should be.
Biden also said that it is highly unlikely that people who have received a primary vaccination series and a booster will become seriously ill.

He added that schools should continue to stay open and states have provided funds to make that happen.
The president again called the situation a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."
A website will be created this month where individuals can order at-home COVID-19 tests.
Biden added that Pfizer's (PFE
-3.9%) production of its COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid is at full scale and the company is providing the U.S. with 20M courses.
COVID test makers: Quidel (QDEL
-6.0%), Fulgent Genetics (FLGT
-10.7%), Abbott (ABT
-2.2%), Roche (OTCQX:RHHBY
-2.2%), Hologic (HOLX
-3.4%), OraSure (OSUR
-5.5%), Becton, Dickinson (BDX
-0.5%), Cue Health (HLTH
-13.6%), Lucira Health (LHDX
-12.6%), Danaher (DHR
-2.6%), PerkinElmer (PKI
-4.5%), and Fluidigm (FLDM
-6.7%).
Vaccine names: BioNTech (BNTX
-3.5%), Moderna (MRNA
-0.9%), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ
-0.1%), AstraZeneca (AZN
-1.8%), and Novavax (NVAX
-3.0%).
On Monday, more than 1M COVID cases were reported in the U.S.


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