Watch Live: Biden To Outline Strategy To Combat COVID-19 Surge

President Biden’s speech comes as the United States has already recorded more than 40 million confirmed cases of the virus, with some 650,000 American lives lost as a result, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

President Biden is set to outline a new “six-pronged” strategy to combat the delta variant of the coronavirus as cases continue to surge across the country. His remarks come as a surge of new COVID-19 cases has led to rising numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in many states.

The speech comes as the United States has already recorded more than 40 million confirmed cases of the virus, with some 650,000 American lives lost as a result, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

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