President Joe Biden will make a major COVID address Thursday 

He will lay out a six-pronged strategy 'working across the public and private sectors to help continue to get the pandemic under control,' Jen Psaki said 

Asked about possible new mandates, Psaki said the White House would offer more details later about the plan 

The United States leads the world in COVID-19 cases and death and is struggling to get control of the highly contagious Delta variant 

Reuters data shows that more than 20,800 people have died in the United States from COVID-19 in the past two weeks