Bloomberg News
@Bloomberg-News·2.8M subscribers·40.1K videos
LIVE: Biden Addresses the Nation on One-Year Anniversary of U.S. Covid Shutdown
Posted
March 12, 2021
Views
34,713
Likes
283
Comments
719
Engagement
March 12, 2021
34,713
283
719
2.89%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
33:51Now Playing(Mar. 11) President Joe Biden will address a pandemic-weary nation on Thursday to mark the day a year ago when the spread of coronavirus forced Americans into isolation, swiftly collapsing the economy and portending more than a half-million deaths.
Biden’s prime-time remarks will acknowledge the personal and collective struggles of the past 12 months while looking ahead to a more promising future in which enough of the U.S. population is vaccinated to minimize the risk of the virus.
“I’m going to talk about what comes next,” Biden said Wednesday. “I’m going to launch the next phase of the Covid response and explain what we will do as a government and what we will ask of the American people. There is light at the end of this dark tunnel.”
The date of March 11, 2020, will remain seared in the national memory as a moment when the peril of Covid-19 hit home. The World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the National Basketball Association suspended its season and actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, announced they’d been infected.
Biden’s presidential campaign, riding high after a string of primary victories that made him a near-lock for the Democratic nomination, began to consider how to address the pandemic. With then-President Donald Trump downplaying the threat, Biden was able to mount politically damaging attacks and present a more sober vision of what lay ahead.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Bloomberg Quicktake brings you live global news and original shows spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world.
To watch complete coverage on Bloomberg Quicktake 24/7, visit or watch on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV and Android TV on the Bloomberg app.
Connect with us on…
Breaking News on YouTube
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
