Thread by @What46HasDone

President Biden's COVID plan:

Vaccine mandate (testing opt out):
All employers with 100 or more employees (paid time off to vaccinate)

Vaccine mandates (no testing opt-out):
Federal employees/contractors
Employees at facilities that receive medicare/medicaid
Head Start Staff
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Major expansion on testing:

Increasing number of pharmacies for free testing to 10,000
Walmart, Kroger, and Amazon will sell at home tests at cost for the next 3 months
25 million free at home tests will be distributed through community health centers/food banks

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Small business support:

Raising the maximum EIDL loan for small businesses from $500k to $2m
Making it easier to get their PPE loans forgiven by providing a streamlined forgiveness process
Establishing a SBA navigator program to help businesses access economic aid

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Doubling fines for violating TSA mask mandates

DOD will double number of clinicians available to support hospitals through FEMA's emergency strike teams

Increase the number of monoclonal antibody treatment shipments by 50% in September.

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Here is the full plan. There's a lot more good stuff in there, like on boosters and education funding, that I couldn't get to in the summary. Check it out whitehouse.gov/covidplan/