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The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public wellness and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-nineteen) outbreak. President Biden believes that the federal authorities must act swiftly and aggressively to aid protect and support our families, minor businesses, first responders, and caregivers essential to help united states face this challenge, those who are nigh vulnerable to health and economical impacts, and our broader communities – not to blame others or bail out corporations.

The Biden-Harris administration will always:

• Mind to science
• Ensure public health decisions are informed past public health professionals
• Promote trust, transparency, common purpose, and accountability in our government

President Biden and Vice President Harris take a seven-indicate plan to beat COVID-19.

Ensure all Americans have admission 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, so we tin can scale up our testing capacity by orders of magnitude.
• Stand upwardly a Pandemic Testing Lath similar Roosevelt'due south War Product Board. It'southward how we produced tanks, planes, uniforms, and supplies in record fourth dimension, and it's how we will produce and distribute tens of millions of tests.
• Found a U.Due south. Public Wellness Jobs Corps to mobilize at least 100,000 Americans across the land with support from trusted local organizations in communities most at take chances to perform culturally competent approaches to contact tracing and protecting at-risk populations.

Set up personal protective equipment (PPE) issues for skillful.

President Biden is taking responsibleness and giving states, cities, tribes, and territories the critical supplies they need.

• Fully use the Defence force Production Act to ramp upward production of masks, face shields, and other PPE so that the national supply of personal protective equipment exceeds demand and our stores and stockpiles — peculiarly in difficult-hit areas that serve disproportionately vulnerable populations — are fully replenished.
• Build immediately toward a future, flexible American-sourced and manufactured adequacy to ensure we are non dependent on other countries in a crisis.

Provide clear, consequent, bear witness-based guidance for how communities should navigate the pandemic – and the resources for schools, small businesses, and families to make information technology through.

• Social distancing is not a light switch. It is a dial. President Biden will straight the CDC to provide specific bear witness-based guidance for how to turn the dial up or downwardly relative to the level of run a risk and caste of viral spread in a community, including when to open or close sure businesses, bars, restaurants, and other spaces; when to open or close schools, and what steps they need to take to make classrooms and facilities safe; appropriate restrictions on size of gatherings; when to consequence stay-at-home restrictions.
• Plant a renewable fund for state and local governments to help forestall upkeep shortfalls, which may cause states to face up steep cuts to teachers and first responders.
• Phone call on Congress to laissez passer an emergency package to ensure schools have the boosted resource they need to adapt effectively to COVID-xix.
• Provide a "restart package" that helps pocket-sized businesses cover the costs of operating safely, including things similar plexiglass and PPE.

"THIS ISN'T Virtually POLITICS. IT'S Nearly SAVING LIVES."

President Biden, September 16, 2020

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

• Invest $25 billion in a vaccine manufacturing and distribution plan that will guarantee it gets to every American, price-free.
• Ensure that politics plays no role in determining the safety and efficacy of any vaccine. The following iii principles will guide the Biden-Harris administration: Put scientists in charge of all decisions on safety and efficacy; publicly release clinical data for whatsoever vaccine the FDA approves; and authorize career staff to write a written report for public review and let them to appear before Congress and speak publicly uncensored.
• Ensure everyone — not just the wealthy and well-continued — in America receives the protection and care they deserve, and consumers are non toll gouged as new drugs and therapies come up to market.

Protect older Americans and others at high take chances.

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

• Establish a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force, every bit proposed by Vice President Harris, to provide recommendations and oversight on disparities in the public wellness and economic response. At the end of this wellness crisis, it volition transition to a permanent Infectious Illness Racial Disparities Task Strength.
• Create the Nationwide Pandemic Dashboard that Americans can check in existent-time to aid them estimate whether local transmission is actively occurring in their zip codes. This information is disquisitional to helping all individuals, but specially older Americans and others at high hazard, sympathise what level of precaution to take.

Rebuild and expand defenses to predict, prevent, and mitigate pandemic threats, including those coming from China.

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

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

Experts concord that tens of thousands of lives can exist saved if Americans wear masks. President Biden will continue to call on:

• Every American to wear a mask when they are effectually people outside their household.
• Every Governor to make that mandatory in their state.
• Local authorities to also brand it mandatory to buttress their state orders.

Once nosotros succeed in getting across this pandemic, we must ensure that the millions of Americans who suffer long-term side effects from COVID don't face college premiums or deprival of wellness insurance because of this new pre-existing condition. The Biden-Harris Administration will work to ensure that the protections for those with pre-existing weather condition that were won with Obamacare are protected. And, they will work to lower wellness care costs and expand access to quality, affordable health care through a Medicare-like public option.

NATIONAL STRATEGY

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

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