What exact phrases did President Biden use in all public Covid speeches from July–December 2021?
Executive summary
A review of the supplied reporting finds a small set of verbatim, attributable phrases President Biden used in public Covid-related remarks between July and December 2021, but the available documents do not contain full transcripts for every public Covid speech in that period, so a complete catalog cannot be produced from these sources alone [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6].
1. Scope and method: which materials were searched and what “exact phrases” means
The search was limited to the reporting and transcripts provided in the briefing, which include partial and full transcripts for selected remarks (for example a December 1 supply‑chain remarks transcript, a July 21 town hall transcript, a December 22 Omicron address recording, and related White House preview material) rather than a comprehensive archive of every presidential Covid speech from July–December 2021 [1] [2] [3] [4].
2. Verbatim phrases located in the supplied sources
From the July 21 CNN town hall transcript, the president is quoted saying, “You’re not going to -- you’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” which appears in published transcripts of that event [2]. From December 22, 2021 Omicron remarks captured on C‑SPAN and archived, the transcript records the line, “the answer is simple -- get your booster shot, wear a mask,” and further states, “boosters provide the strongest protection,” with the president noting booster uptake and that boosters are “free and widely available” [3]. The White House background preview for the December address quotes the administration summarizing what the president would say: “if you’re among the vast majority of Americans who are fully vaccinated, and especially if you’ve got your booster shot, you have a high degree of protection against severe illness,” and that “because Omicron spreads easily, we will see fully vaccinated people get COVID‑19, but vaccinated people who get COVID will likely have no symptoms or mild symptoms” [4]. In the December 1 remarks about the supply chain (which included Covid policy lines), the president said he would fight COVID “not with shutdowns or lockdowns, but with more widespread vaccinations, boosters, testing and more,” per the supplied transcript excerpt [1]. The July 4 Independence Day remarks include broader civic phrasing tied to pandemic recovery such as, “We just have to remember who we are, we are the United States of America, and there’s nothing, nothing we can’t do if we do it together,” used in the July 4 address as reported in the available transcript [5]. One additional phrase appearing in the provided March transcript (outside the July–December window but illustrative of recurring language) is “If we keep our guard up, stick together and stick with the science, we can look forward [to a] 4th of July that feels a bit more normal,” which demonstrates continuity of rhetoric though it lies outside the requested date range [6].
3. What is not available in these sources and why that matters
The supplied set does not include every White House speech transcript or a central listing of all Covid‑themed remarks for July–December 2021, so the list above is limited to exact quoted phrases that appear in the provided materials and cannot be claimed to represent “all” phrases Biden used in every public Covid speech in that six‑month span [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Where full transcripts exist elsewhere—White House archives, the Miller Center’s collection, or media transcripts—those would be needed to produce a truly exhaustive inventory [7] [8].
4. Context and competing readings from the sources
The phrases located emphasize vaccination, boosters, testing, masking and collective effort; the White House framing materials stress protection for the vaccinated and expanded access to testing, while media transcripts (town hall, Omicron address) quote more direct exhortations to get vaccinated or boosted [4] [3] [2] [1]. Alternative viewpoints — for example mitigation advocates who pushed for mandates or critics who contested administration strategy — are not documented in these excerpts, so assessing how Biden’s exact phrasing shifted in response to criticism requires additional primary transcripts and contemporaneous coverage [1] [3].
5. Bottom line
From the supplied reporting, the only exact, attributable phrases that can be reported with confidence for July–December 2021 are the excerpts quoted above from the July town hall, the December Omicron remarks and White House preview, the December 1 supply‑chain remarks that included Covid policy language, and the July 4 patriotic line tied to recovery; a complete catalog of “all” exact phrases for every public Covid speech in that period cannot be produced from these sources alone and would require consulting full official transcripts and a comprehensive speech archive [2] [3] [4] [1] [5] [7].