{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://kaptur.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kaptur-statement-covid-19-new-biden-administration-measures", "Kaptur Statement on Covid-19, New Biden Administration Measures", "2021-12-21", "2021", "2021-12", "Democrat", "House", "OH", "Marcy Kaptur", "K000009", "kaptur.house.gov", "kaptur", "https://kaptur.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement on the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and the new federal measures President Joe Biden announced to protect Americans.\n\n\u201cThe new steps the Biden Administration is taking to combat the spread of this deadly virus will save lives, and protect our communities,\u201d said Rep. Kaptur. \u201cNo one has been spared by the devastation unleashed by Covid-19, and we all yearn for the dawn of a new day. But as we grapple with the heart-wrenching loss of nearly 30,000 of our neighbors across Ohio, now is not the time to let our guard down. With the Omicron variant surging, the health and safety of our loved ones, friends, and frontline healthcare heroes depends on the actions that each one of us takes right now. Our best weapons in this fight are the vaccines that medical science has gifted us. In order to emerge from this pandemic, we all must do our part and get vaccinated \u2013 and boosted \u2013 as quickly as possible.\u201d\n\nThe new federal measures President Biden announced include:\n\nMore free testing: the federal government is purchasing 500 million at-home, rapid Covid-19 tests which will be available for free through online ordering and home delivery to anyone who wants them \u2013 beginning in January 2022.\n\nMore support for hospitals: the Department of Defense is readying 1,000 military medical professionals that can be deployed to Covid-burdened hospitals across the country. Additionally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is activating planning teams to work with each state to assess hospital needs ahead of winter surges, and expand hospital bed capacity and ambulance availability \u2013 with the federal government paying for all of it.\n\nMore critical supplies: the federal government is pre-positioning hundreds of millions of N-95 masks, billions of gloves, tens of millions of gowns, and over 100,000 ventilators through the Strategic National Stockpile to be shipped to states as soon as they are needed.\n\nMore information on the measures President Biden announced can be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://kaptur.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kaptur-statement-covid-19-new-biden-administration-measures"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7424780633300543, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}