President Joe Biden now says there is “no federal solution” to the COVID-19 pandemic. “This gets solved at the state level,” Biden said at a meeting Dec. 27 with the National Governors Association (NGA), and the White House COVID-19 response team. “It ultimately gets down to where the rubber meets the road and that’s where the patient is in need of help or preventing the need for help,” he added. This from a president who ran on the promise that he would “beat the virus” and “get it under control.” Biden continues to refer to the recently emerged Omicron variant as a source for concern, not a source for panic. The nation has seen an uptick of COVID cases in recent weeks among both vaccinated and unvaccinated populations as a result of the variant, which is now the dominant strain of COVID in the United States. Biden also continues to …