This morning, Biden's transition team fully launched BuildBackBetter.com, and the top item on their list of "Day 1" priorities is a detailed plan to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, most of which we reported earlier this week politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
He promises to:
-Double the number of drive-through testing sites.
-invest in developing at-home tests (more on why we don't have those yet: politico.com/news/2020/10/2…)
-create a 100k person public health corps to help overburdened contact tracers
-Double the number of drive-through testing sites.
-invest in developing at-home tests (more on why we don't have those yet: politico.com/news/2020/10/2…)
-create a 100k person public health corps to help overburdened contact tracers
-use the Defense Production Act to eliminate ongoing shortages of protective gear for health workers
-develop clear national guidelines for schools/businesses reopening
-create a national online dashboard for people to see the virus' severity in their community
-develop clear national guidelines for schools/businesses reopening
-create a national online dashboard for people to see the virus' severity in their community
-If/when we have a vaccine, he pledges a $25 billion fund for manufacturing & distributing it.
And since a vaccine will only help if enough people agree to take it, here's how he'll address ongoing distrust/hesitancy:
And since a vaccine will only help if enough people agree to take it, here's how he'll address ongoing distrust/hesitancy:
But wait, there's more!
Biden's promises to:
-set up a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force.
-rejoin the World Health Organization
-push holdout governors and mayors to mandate masks, and require them in all federal buildings & on interstate transportation
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Biden's promises to:
-set up a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force.
-rejoin the World Health Organization
-push holdout governors and mayors to mandate masks, and require them in all federal buildings & on interstate transportation
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We actually reported on a lot of this plan back in August: politico.com/news/2020/08/2…
But the pandemic is a *lot* worse now. Unlike earlier waves that were restricted to a handful of states, this one is nationwide. Just look at how many states have "uncontrolled spread" (dark red)
But the pandemic is a *lot* worse now. Unlike earlier waves that were restricted to a handful of states, this one is nationwide. Just look at how many states have "uncontrolled spread" (dark red)
Convincing GOP govs to work with Biden on Covid won't be easy. Just this morning, SD Gov. Noem incorrectly attributed her state's huge surge in cases to more testing & praised Trump's approach of giving her the "flexibility to do the right thing." The state has no mask mandate.
A lot of this work will kick off tomorrow, when Biden will announce his transition's Covid task force. We scooped who will be leading it and what they'll be focusing on earlier this week --> politico.com/news/2020/11/0…
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