When Will the Government Work Again

The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-xix) outbreak. President Biden believes that the federal government must deed swiftly and aggressively to assistance protect and support our families, small businesses, outset responders, and caregivers essential to aid united states of america face this challenge, those who are most vulnerable to health and economic impacts, and our broader communities – not to blame others or bail out corporations.

The Biden-Harris administration will always:

• Listen to science
• Ensure public health decisions are informed by public wellness professionals
• Promote trust, transparency, mutual purpose, and accountability in our government

President Biden and Vice President Harris accept a seven-point programme to beat COVID-19.

Ensure all Americans take access to regular, reliable, and free testing.

• Double the number of drive-through testing sites.
• Invest in next-generation testing, including at home tests and instant tests, and then we can scale up our testing capacity by orders of magnitude.
• Stand up a Pandemic Testing Board like Roosevelt'south War Production Lath. It's how we produced tanks, planes, uniforms, and supplies in record time, and information technology'south how we will produce and distribute tens of millions of tests.
• Plant a U.S. Public Wellness Jobs Corps to mobilize at least 100,000 Americans beyond the state with support from trusted local organizations in communities near at risk to perform culturally competent approaches to contact tracing and protecting at-risk populations.

Fix personal protective equipment (PPE) problems for practiced.

President Biden is taking responsibility and giving states, cities, tribes, and territories the disquisitional supplies they demand.

• Fully use the Defence Production Human action to ramp up production of masks, face shields, and other PPE so that the national supply of personal protective equipment exceeds demand and our stores and stockpiles — especially in hard-hit areas that serve unduly vulnerable populations — are fully replenished.
• Build immediately toward a future, flexible American-sourced and manufactured adequacy to ensure we are not dependent on other countries in a crisis.

Provide clear, consistent, evidence-based guidance for how communities should navigate the pandemic – and the resources for schools, small businesses, and families to make it through.

• Social distancing is not a low-cal switch. It is a dial. President Biden will direct the CDC to provide specific prove-based guidance for how to plough the dial up or down relative to the level of risk and degree of viral spread in a customs, including when to open up or close sure businesses, bars, restaurants, and other spaces; when to open up or shut schools, and what steps they demand to have to make classrooms and facilities prophylactic; appropriate restrictions on size of gatherings; when to issue stay-at-home restrictions.
• Plant a renewable fund for state and local governments to help prevent budget shortfalls, which may cause states to face steep cuts to teachers and showtime responders.
• Call on Congress to laissez passer an emergency package to ensure schools have the boosted resources they need to adapt effectively to COVID-19.
• Provide a "restart packet" that helps small businesses comprehend the costs of operating safely, including things like plexiglass and PPE.

"THIS ISN'T ABOUT POLITICS. IT'Southward Almost SAVING LIVES."

President Biden, September xvi, 2020

Program for the effective, equitable distribution of treatments and vaccines — because development isn't enough if they aren't finer distributed.

• Invest $25 billion in a vaccine manufacturing and distribution plan that will guarantee information technology gets to every American, cost-free.
• Ensure that politics plays no role in determining the safety and efficacy of whatever vaccine. The following 3 principles will guide the Biden-Harris administration: Put scientists in charge of all decisions on safety and efficacy; publicly release clinical data for any vaccine the FDA approves; and authorize career staff to write a study for public review and permit them to appear earlier Congress and speak publicly uncensored.
• Ensure anybody — non only the wealthy and well-connected — in America receives the protection and care they deserve, and consumers are non price gouged equally new drugs and therapies come to marketplace.

Protect older Americans and others at high risk.

President Biden understands that older Americans and others at high-risk are most vulnerable to COVID-19.

• Constitute a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Chore Force, as proposed by Vice President Harris, to provide recommendations and oversight on disparities in the public health and economical response. At the end of this health crisis, it volition transition to a permanent Infectious Disease Racial Disparities Task Forcefulness.
• Create the Nationwide Pandemic Dashboard that Americans can check in real-fourth dimension to assist them gauge whether local transmission is actively occurring in their zippo codes. This information is critical to helping all individuals, but particularly older Americans and others at high risk, understand what level of precaution to take.

Rebuild and expand defenses to predict, prevent, and mitigate pandemic threats, including those coming from People's republic of china.

• Immediately restore the White House National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, originally established by the Obama-Biden administration.
• Immediately restore our relationship with the World Health Organization, which — while not perfect — is essential to analogous a global response during a pandemic.
• Re-launch and strengthen U.Southward. Agency for International Development'south pathogen-tracking programme chosen PREDICT.
• Expand the number of CDC's deployed disease detectives so we have eyes and ears on the ground, including rebuilding the function in Beijing.

Implement mask mandates nationwide past working with governors and mayors and past asking the American people to do what they do best: stride upwards in a time of crisis.

Experts agree that tens of thousands of lives can be saved if Americans habiliment masks. President Biden will proceed to call on:

• Every American to clothing a mask when they are effectually people outside their household.
• Every Governor to make that mandatory in their state.
• Local authorities to besides make information technology mandatory to buttress their state orders.

Once nosotros succeed in getting beyond this pandemic, nosotros must ensure that the millions of Americans who suffer long-term side effects from COVID don't face up higher premiums or denial of wellness insurance considering of this new pre-existing condition. The Biden-Harris Assistants volition work to ensure that the protections for those with pre-existing conditions that were won with Obamacare are protected. And, they will work to lower wellness care costs and expand admission to quality, affordable health intendance through a Medicare-like public selection.

NATIONAL STRATEGY

Read the National Strategy for the COVID-⁠19 Response and PandemicPreparedness

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Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/covid-19/

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