White House Press Briefings Reduced to Fourteen Socially Distanced Reporters Over Omicron Fears
White House press briefings will be limited to just fourteen reporters according to an announcement Sunday by the White House Correspondents’ Association because of fears about the Omicron COVID variant. Last week the WHCA was calling for the briefings to be done by remote, a request that was rejected by the Biden administration according to the Washington Post.
File screen image with always applicable chyron.
Philip Wegmann with Real Clear News posted the news and new seating chart.
“THROUGH THE OMICRON VARIANT WAVE” pic.twitter.com/4KPasE2gLT
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 3, 2022
Excerpt from Washington Post article about the WHCA trying to go ZOOM over Omicron fears.