White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 speech on Tuesday will not involve a push for lockdowns over the spread of the Omicron variant. Biden “will issue a stark warning” to people who haven’t yet received a COVID-19 vaccination, Psaki said. But the president, she said, will not be a push for locking down over the variant, which has caused few deaths worldwide. “This is not a speech about locking the country down,” Psaki remarked. While the World Health Organization named Omicron a “variant of concern” due to its high transmissibility, officials in South Africa and New York City’s chief health commissioner have recently said the strain has resulted in only a fraction of the hospitalizations that were seen in earlier COVID-19 waves. The president has little latitude in enforcing a lockdown as Congress is the only entity that can regulate interstate commerce. However, should the …