Biden's COVID-19 Plan

Now Biden has been projected as the US's newest President-elect, what does he plan to do with COVID-19?

By the time Biden takes office on January 20th, the University of Washington Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation model projects the US will have more than 372,000 coronavirus deaths.

However, Biden does have a plan. He has laid out this plan on his campaign website and on the Biden-Harris transition website published on Sunday. (If you want more information on this plan that I do not state later in this post, please see his websites that I will list below.)

Here are the highlights of his plan.

He already announced Monday the members of his coronavirus advisory board. It will be led by former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. David Kessler and Yale University's Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith. Other members are Dr. Luciana Borio, Rick Bright, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. Celine Gounder, Dr. Julie Morita, Michael Osterholm, Loyce Pace, Dr. Robert Rodriguez and Dr. Eric Goosby.

He also has promised more testing and contact tracing. He will double drive-through testing sites, invest in new technology, and create a US Public Health Jobs Corps that would mobilize "at least 100,000" culturally competent contact tracers. He also hopes to create a Pandemic Testing Board (similar to FDR's War Production Board) that would help produce and distribute tens of millions of tests.

Biden will invest $25 billion more to make and distribute vaccines to everyone in the US for free. He also promised therapies and drugs would be affordable.

He will work with local governors and mayors to mandate masks in public. (Keep in mind that an October modeling study showed that if 95% of Americans wore masks, more than 100,000 lives could be saved.) His team will also take on problems with PPE for health care workers.

He will listen to scientists. He will create a Nationwide Pandemic Dashboard so people can see the numbers for themselves, and a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force that would become a permanent Infectious Disease Racial Disparities Task Force.

He will rejoin WHO and search for future threats. He will also restore the White House National Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense. It had been folded into another organization by Trump in 2018, but originally created by the Obama administration in 2016 to help manage threats such as Ebola.

I'm so excited that we are going to have a president that takes COVID-19 seriously. Maybe, just maybe, we can begin to go back to normal sooner rather than later.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/health/biden-pandemic-plan/index.html

Biden's Website: https://joebiden.com/presidency-for-all-americans/

Biden's Transition Website: https://buildbackbetter.com/

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