Biden to sign virus measures, requires mask use to travel

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Pres. Biden is putting forth a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that they be worn for travel.

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, in the Queens borough of New York. New York officials are pushing for more COVID-19 vaccine doses as the effort to speed up inoculations collides with a lack of vaccine.

“We need to ask average Americans to do their part," said Jeff Zients, the White House official directing the national response. “Defeating the virus requires a coordinated nationwide effort." Biden’s top medical adviser on COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, also announced renewed U.S. support for the World Health Organization after it faced blistering criticism from the Trump administration, laying out new commitments to tackle the coronavirus and other global health issues. Fauci said early Thursday that the U.S. will join the U.N.

Biden also is seeking to expand testing and vaccine availability, with the goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office. Zients called Biden's goal “ambitious and achievable.” But some independent experts say the administration should be setting a higher bar for itself than 100 million shots. During flu season, the U.S. is able to vaccinate about 3 million people a day, said Dr. Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle. “Given the number of people dying from COVID, we could and should do more — like what we’re able to do on seasonal flu,” he said.

Getting schools and child care going will help to ease the drag on the U.S. economy, making it easier for parents to return to their jobs and restaurants to find lunch-time customers.To ramp up supplies, Biden is giving government agencies a green light to use a Cold War-era law called the Defense Production Act to direct manufacturing.

 

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Everything is ok now little babies daddy Biden is here now. Lol there are so many stupid people no wonder governments through out history don't last.

Biden’s testing requirements for travel will hit Muslim and African countries the hardest. Many are calling his policy racist.

Not one original idea.

Oh look a plan. Amazing. God Trump was terrible.

So what Trump was doing for months... Got it.

And public places like island bike shop Marco island fl

Thank God for leadership!!

Ramp up vaccinations!

Sounds like Trump said before 👍 but Fake Ass News never mentioned it

So.....doubling down on the mandate that clearly isn’t working? How smart

The only thing on this list that will happen is the vaccines and that’s because it was already happening 🙄no way he pushes the teachers unions into agreeing to open schools .

Oh let’s Reopen the economy now? I’m freaking shocked ......

this is terrible news

It's all about the bill gates money making vaccine

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