President Joe Biden on Tuesday sought to calm fears of returning to a coronavirus-induced economic shutdown amid a surge of U.S. infections with the Omicron variant, announcing plans to distribute half a billion free at-home tests beginning in January as well as other steps to prepare for further outbreaks."What happened was, the Omicron virus spread even more rapidly than anybody thought," Biden said at the White House, but emphasized that the country is much better prepared now than when the pandemic hit last year."No, this is not March of 2020. Two hundred million people are fully vaccin…READ FULL ARTICLE
