In his first speech to the country on Thursday night, President Biden barely drew criticism from former President Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
“A year ago we were hit by a virus that went silent and spread unnoticed, denials for days, weeks and months – leading to more deaths, more infections, more stress and more loneliness,” the president said. . “We have lost confidence in whether our government and our democracy can deliver really hard things to the American people.”
Without ever mentioning Trump by name, Biden highlighted issues his predecessor was criticized for, such as the importance of wearing a mask and ‘listening to science’ to decide how best to reopen the economy.
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” A mask, the easiest thing to save lives, sometimes it separates us, states set it against each other instead of cooperating with each other, ” Biden remarks, nodding at the recent decision by Republican countries to lift coronavirus restrictions te hef. mask mandates included.
Biden urged Americans to listen to the advice given by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue wearing masks “to save lives.”
Trump’s refusal to wear a mask to the pandemic for up to several months was an issue that Biden criticized during the presidential race.
Biden mentions dr. Anthony Fauci ‘one of the most prominent and trusted voices in the world’. The remark was a contrast to that of Trump, who was sometimes a sharp critic of Fauci, the leading doctor of his White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Biden suggested that Americans do not get honesty from Trump, and reflected on a visit he made to a small business owner in Philadelphia last summer.
“She looked me straight in the eye and said, ‘I just want the truth,'” he said, describing what the business owner said she needed most to help her through the pandemic.
“My fellow Americans, you owe nothing less than the truth,” Biden added.
He noted that only 8 percent of people aged 65 and older received their first vaccine shot when he took office, in contrast to the numbers the vaccine received during his presidency.
The vaccines were only recently made available when Biden entered service on January 20th.
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Biden emphasized how he has worked with Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson since joining the White House to “manufacture and buy vaccines”, meaning 65 percent of the elderly have received the coronavirus vaccine in the last two. months.
Trump could not be immediately reached for comment by Fox News.