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The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public health and economical crisis acquired by the coronavirus (COVID-nineteen) outbreak. President Biden believes that the federal authorities must act swiftly and aggressively to help protect and support our families, small businesses, first responders, and caregivers essential to help usa face this claiming, those who are almost vulnerable to health and economic impacts, and our broader communities – non to arraign others or bail out corporations.

The Biden-Harris administration will always:

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

President Biden and Vice President Harris have a seven-signal program to vanquish COVID-19.

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

• Double the number of bulldoze-through testing sites.
• Invest in next-generation testing, including at home tests and instant tests, so nosotros can scale up our testing chapters by orders of magnitude.
• Stand up upward a Pandemic Testing Board like Roosevelt's War Product Board. It's how nosotros produced tanks, planes, uniforms, and supplies in record fourth dimension, and it'southward how we will produce and distribute tens of millions of tests.
• Establish a U.S. Public Health Jobs Corps to mobilize at least 100,000 Americans across the country with support from trusted local organizations in communities well-nigh at adventure to perform culturally competent approaches to contact tracing and protecting at-hazard populations.

Fix personal protective equipment (PPE) problems for good.

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

• Fully utilise the Defense Production Deed to ramp upwardly production of masks, face shields, and other PPE so that the national supply of personal protective equipment exceeds need and our stores and stockpiles — specially in hard-hit areas that serve disproportionately vulnerable populations — are fully replenished.
• Build immediately toward a hereafter, flexible American-sourced and manufactured capability to ensure we are not dependent on other countries in a crisis.

Provide articulate, consistent, show-based guidance for how communities should navigate the pandemic – and the resource for schools, small businesses, and families to make information technology through.

• Social distancing is non a light switch. It is a dial. President Biden will direct the CDC to provide specific testify-based guidance for how to turn the dial upward or down relative to the level of hazard and degree of viral spread in a customs, including when to open or shut certain businesses, bars, restaurants, and other spaces; when to open up or close schools, and what steps they demand to accept to make classrooms and facilities safe; appropriate restrictions on size of gatherings; when to effect stay-at-home restrictions.
• Plant a renewable fund for state and local governments to help foreclose budget shortfalls, which may cause states to face steep cuts to teachers and first responders.
• Call on Congress to pass an emergency bundle to ensure schools take the additional resources they need to adapt effectively to COVID-xix.
• Provide a "restart bundle" that helps small businesses cover the costs of operating safely, including things like plexiglass and PPE.

"THIS ISN'T ABOUT POLITICS. IT'Due south Nearly SAVING LIVES."

President Biden, September sixteen, 2020

Programme for the effective, equitable distribution of treatments and vaccines — because development isn't plenty if they aren't effectively distributed.

• Invest $25 billion in a vaccine manufacturing and distribution plan that volition guarantee information technology gets to every American, cost-free.
• Ensure that politics plays no role in determining the safety and efficacy of any vaccine. The post-obit iii principles volition 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 written report for public review and permit them to appear before Congress and speak publicly uncensored.
• Ensure everyone — not just the wealthy and well-connected — in America receives the protection and care they deserve, and consumers are not price gouged as new drugs and therapies come to market.

Protect older Americans and others at high risk.

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

• Establish a COVID-19 Racial and Indigenous Disparities Chore Force, equally proposed by Vice President Harris, to provide recommendations and oversight on disparities in the public health and economical response. At the finish of this health crunch, it will transition to a permanent Communicable diseases Racial Disparities Task Force.
• Create the Nationwide Pandemic Dashboard that Americans can check in real-time to assistance them gauge whether local transmission is actively occurring in their nothing codes. This information is critical to helping all individuals, but peculiarly 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 Communist china.

• Immediately restore the White Firm National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, originally established past the Obama-Biden administration.
• Immediately restore our human relationship with the Globe Wellness System, which — while non perfect — is essential to analogous a global response during a pandemic.
• Re-launch and strengthen U.S. Agency for International Development'south pathogen-tracking programme called PREDICT.
• Expand the number of CDC'due south deployed disease detectives so we take eyes and ears on the basis, including rebuilding the office in Beijing.

Implement mask mandates nationwide by working with governors and mayors and by asking the American people to practise what they do best: step up in a fourth dimension of crisis.

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

• Every American to article of clothing a mask when they are around people outside their household.
• Every Governor to make that mandatory in their state.
• Local government to also make it mandatory to buttress their country orders.

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

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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