To Open Up Again

The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public wellness and economic crisis acquired by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. President Biden believes that the federal government must act swiftly and aggressively to assistance protect and support our families, small businesses, first responders, and caregivers essential to aid united states of america face this claiming, those who are most vulnerable to health and economical impacts, and our broader communities – not to blame others or bail out corporations.

The Biden-Harris administration will always:

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

President Biden and Vice President Harris accept a seven-point plan to trounce COVID-nineteen.

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

• Double the number of drive-through testing sites.
• Invest in adjacent-generation testing, including at home tests and instant tests, and so we tin calibration upwardly our testing capacity by orders of magnitude.
• Stand up a Pandemic Testing Board like Roosevelt's War Product Board. It's how we produced tanks, planes, uniforms, and supplies in tape time, and it's how we will produce and distribute tens of millions of tests.
• Establish a U.South. Public Health Jobs Corps to mobilize at to the lowest degree 100,000 Americans across the country with support from trusted local organizations in communities well-nigh at risk to perform culturally competent approaches to contact tracing and protecting at-risk populations.

Fix personal protective equipment (PPE) issues for good.

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

• Fully use the Defense force Production Act to ramp upwards product of masks, confront shields, and other PPE and then that the national supply of personal protective equipment exceeds need and our stores and stockpiles — peculiarly in hard-hitting areas that serve disproportionately vulnerable populations — are fully replenished.
• Build immediately toward a future, flexible American-sourced and manufactured capability to ensure nosotros are non dependent on other countries in a crunch.

Provide clear, consequent, 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 light switch. It is a dial. President Biden volition direct the CDC to provide specific evidence-based guidance for how to plow 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 certain businesses, bars, restaurants, and other spaces; when to open up or close schools, and what steps they need to take to make classrooms and facilities safe; appropriate restrictions on size of gatherings; when to issue stay-at-home restrictions.
• Establish a renewable fund for state and local governments to assist foreclose budget shortfalls, which may cause states to face steep cuts to teachers and first responders.
• Telephone call on Congress to laissez passer an emergency package to ensure schools have the additional resource they demand to conform effectively to COVID-nineteen.
• Provide a "restart package" that helps minor businesses cover the costs of operating safely, including things like plexiglass and PPE.

"THIS ISN'T ABOUT POLITICS. IT'S ABOUT SAVING LIVES."

President Biden, September 16, 2020

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

• Invest $25 billion in a vaccine manufacturing and distribution plan that will guarantee information technology gets to every American, cost-gratuitous.
• Ensure that politics plays no function in determining the condom and efficacy of whatsoever vaccine. The following 3 principles will guide the Biden-Harris assistants: Put scientists in charge of all decisions on safety and efficacy; publicly release clinical information for whatever vaccine the FDA approves; and authorize career staff to write a 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 intendance 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 loftier-risk are most vulnerable to COVID-19.

• Establish a COVID-19 Racial and Indigenous Disparities Task Force, as proposed past Vice President Harris, to provide recommendations and oversight on disparities in the public health and economic response. At the end of this health crisis, it will transition to a permanent Infectious Disease Racial Disparities Task Force.
• Create the Nationwide Pandemic Dashboard that Americans can bank check in existent-time to help them gauge 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 risk, understand what level of precaution to take.

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

• Immediately restore the White House National Security Council Advisers for Global Health Security and Biodefense, originally established past the Obama-Biden administration.
• Immediately restore our relationship with the World Health Arrangement, which — while not perfect — is essential to coordinating a global response during a pandemic.
• Re-launch and strengthen U.S. Agency for International Evolution's pathogen-tracking program called PREDICT.
• Expand the number of CDC'south deployed disease detectives so nosotros have eyes and ears on the footing, including rebuilding the office in Beijing.

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

Experts hold that tens of thousands of lives tin be saved if Americans vesture masks. President Biden will go along to call on:

• Every American to vesture a mask when they are around people exterior their household.
• Every Governor to brand that mandatory in their state.
• Local authorities to as well make information technology mandatory to buttress their state orders.

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