When Will the Government Open Again

The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public wellness and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. President Biden believes that the federal government must act swiftly and aggressively to help protect and support our families, pocket-size businesses, first responders, and caregivers essential to aid us confront 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 scientific discipline
• Ensure public health 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-point program to beat COVID-xix.

Ensure all Americans accept access to regular, reliable, and gratuitous testing.

• Double the number of drive-through testing sites.
• Invest in next-generation testing, including at dwelling house tests and instant tests, and so nosotros can scale up our testing capacity by orders of magnitude.
• Stand a Pandemic Testing Lath like Roosevelt'due south State of war Production Lath. It's how we produced tanks, planes, uniforms, and supplies in record time, and it'due south how we will produce and distribute tens of millions of tests.
• Establish a U.S. 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 about at risk to perform culturally competent approaches to contact tracing and protecting at-risk populations.

Gear up personal protective equipment (PPE) problems for good.

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

• Fully apply the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of masks, confront shields, and other PPE so that the national supply of personal protective equipment exceeds demand and our stores and stockpiles — especially in difficult-hit areas that serve unduly vulnerable populations — are fully replenished.
• Build immediately toward a time to come, 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 resource for schools, small-scale 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 bear witness-based guidance for how to turn the dial upwards or downwardly relative to the level of adventure and degree of viral spread in a community, including when to open up or close certain businesses, confined, restaurants, and other spaces; when to open or shut schools, and what steps they need to take to make classrooms and facilities prophylactic; advisable restrictions on size of gatherings; when to upshot stay-at-home restrictions.
• Found a renewable fund for state and local governments to help prevent budget shortfalls, which may crusade states to face steep cuts to teachers and first responders.
• Call on Congress to pass an emergency package to ensure schools accept the additional resources they need to adapt effectively to COVID-19.
• Provide a "restart package" that helps small businesses cover the costs of operating safely, including things like plexiglass and PPE.

"THIS ISN'T Near POLITICS. It'Southward ABOUT SAVING LIVES."

President Biden, September 16, 2020

Plan for the constructive, equitable distribution of treatments and vaccines — considering evolution isn't enough if they aren't effectively distributed.

• Invest $25 billion in a vaccine manufacturing and distribution plan that volition guarantee it gets to every American, cost-gratuitous.
• Ensure that politics plays no role in determining the condom and efficacy of any vaccine. The following iii principles volition guide the Biden-Harris administration: Put scientists in accuse of all decisions on safety and efficacy; publicly release clinical data for any vaccine the FDA approves; and authorize career staff to write a written report for public review and permit them to announced before Congress and speak publicly uncensored.
• Ensure everyone — not just the wealthy and well-continued — in America receives the protection and intendance they deserve, and consumers are not price 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-chance are near vulnerable to COVID-19.

• Establish a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force, as proposed by Vice President Harris, to provide recommendations and oversight on disparities in the public health and economic response. At the stop of this health crunch, it will transition to a permanent Infectious disease Racial Disparities Task Forcefulness.
• Create the Nationwide Pandemic Dashboard that Americans tin check in real-fourth dimension to assist them gauge whether local transmission is actively occurring in their zero codes. This information is critical to helping all individuals, just peculiarly older Americans and others at loftier gamble, understand 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 Business firm National Security Quango Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, originally established by the Obama-Biden administration.
• Immediately restore our relationship with the Earth Wellness Organization, which — while not perfect — is essential to coordinating a global response during a pandemic.
• Re-launch and strengthen U.South. Bureau for International Development's pathogen-tracking program chosen PREDICT.
• Expand the number of CDC'southward deployed illness detectives so we accept optics and ears on the ground, 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 practice best: step up in a fourth dimension of crisis.

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

• Every American to wearable a mask when they are around people outside their household.
• Every Governor to make that mandatory in their state.
• Local regime to also go far mandatory to buttress their land orders.

Once nosotros succeed in getting beyond this pandemic, nosotros must ensure that the millions of Americans who endure long-term side effects from COVID don't confront college premiums or denial of health insurance considering of this new pre-existing status. 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 volition work to lower health 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-⁠xix Response and PandemicPreparedness

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

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