The pandemic has become a political nightmare for both US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson | Analysis by StCollinson
This story was excerpted from the December 15 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe.We don't make excuses for politicians. And big errors sent Biden's approval ratings plummeting: He downplayed raging inflation, overpromised on a pandemic that mocks political timetables and presided over a debacle in Afghanistan.
"This news provides another potentially powerful tool in our fight against the virus, including the Omicron variant," Biden said in a statement, adding that his administration has"already placed an order for enough of these pills to treat 10 million Americans.
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