Thread by @AndrewFeinberg

.@POTUS: "For the past year, we couldn't rely on the federal government to act with urgency and focus and coordination we needed. And we have seen the tragic costs of that failure."

Biden: "While the vaccine provides so much hope the rollout has been a dismal failure thus far...I understand why many governors, mayors county officials tribal leaders, feel like they're left on their own without a clear national plan to get them through the crisis. "

.@POTUS: "Let me be very clear: Things are going to continue to get worse before they get better. The memorial we we held two nights ago will not be our last one, unfortunately. The death toll will likely top 500,000 next month, the cases will continue to mount."

MORE: "We didn't get into this mess overnight. It's gonna take months for us to turn things around. But let me be equally clear, we will get through this. We will defeat this pandemic. And to a nation waiting for action. Let me be the clearest on this point. Help is on the way."

"Our national strategy is comprehensive. It's based on science not politics. It's based on truth not denial, and it's detailed," @POTUS says, noting his plan is available on whitehouse.gov.

.@POTUS: "We'll move heaven and earth to get more people vaccinated for free, and create more places for them to get vaccinated, to mobilize more medical teams to get shots in people's arm than to increase vaccine supply and get it out the door as fast as possible. "

.@POTUS says @FEMA will have federally vaccination centers (100 of them) by next months, @CDCgov will launch a federal pharmacy vaccine program by early February.

.@POTUS: "The brutal truth is it's going to take months before we can get the majority of Americans vaccinated. So while we increase vaccinations. We're going to take steps necessary now to slow the spread of disease as well."

Masks for next 99 days could save more than 50,000 lives, @POTUS says.

Travelers to US will need to have negative test before boarding and will need to quarantine on arrival, @POTUS says

.@POTUS says his plan is launching a "full scale wartime effort to address the supply shortages," notes that more Americans are dead from COVID than died fighting World War II.

Biden Administration "[is] going to put the full force of the federal government behind expanding testing by launching a covid 19 pandemic testing board," @POTUS says. Also calling for enforcement of more stringent worker safety standards.

White House health equity task force will "ensure that equality is at the core of every decision we make that includes addressing vaccine hesitancy and building trust in communities as well as fighting disinformation campaigns that are already underway," @POTUS says

"We're going to make sure [scientists like Fauci] work, free from political interference, and they make decisions strictly based on science and healthcare, alone, size and health alone, not what the political consequences are," @POTUS says.

.@POTUS says his administration "will always be honest and transparent with you about both the good news and the bad."

"We will level with you — when we make a mistake, we'll straight up say what happened."

Biden says response will cost but doing nothing more expensive, looks forward to working w/ Congress: "We're in a national emergency, it's time we treat it like one, together."

"The sooner we can put this pandemic behind us, the sooner we can build our economy back and build it back better...we can do this if we stand together as fellow Americans," @POTUS says as he ends remarks.

Note once again the lack of @Sharpie markers

Not holding them up for the cameras, either. Just handing them off as he finishes.

Deleted a tweet in which I speculated a question @POTUS responded to came from @pdoocy (today's TV pool is @FoxNews).

The question was from @ZekeJMiller.