WASHINGTON — The White House is offering coronavirus surge response teams and other federal resources to governors in all 50 states as cases increase nationwide from the spread of the delta variant, straining local hospitals and driving vaccinated people to resume wearing masks.
Jeff Zients, head of the White House COVID-19 response team, in a letter dated Thursday and obtained by McClatchy, said the Biden administration is prepared to send additional federal resources wherever they are requested, including supplies from the strategic national stockpile.
“The spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant is leading to increases in COVID-19 cases across the country, with the impact primarily occurring among unvaccinated individuals and in under-vaccinated communities,” Zients wrote. “Unfortunately, the rise in cases can stress the hospital and clinical care infrastructure in some states.”
