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Midnightwalk

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16. Just saw a 100+ page plan on whitehouse.gov
Thu Jan 21, 2021, 06:17 PM
Jan 2021
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/National-Strategy-for-the-COVID-19-Response-and-Pandemic-Preparedness.pdf]

Here's the letter from Biden at the start
My fellow Americans,

As I swore an oath to God and country to serve as your president, I offered a prayer for the 400,000 Americans and counting who have lost their lives this past year from the once-in-a-century pandemic in our midst. They were mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who leave behind grieving loved ones and a nation on edge.

For the past year, we could not turn to the federal government for a national plan to answer prayers with action — until today. In the following pages, you will find my Administration’s national strategy to beat the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a comprehensive plan that starts with restoring public trust and mounting an aggressive, safe, and effective vaccination campaign. It continues with the steps we know that stop the spread liked expanded masking, testing, and social distancing. It’s a plan where the federal government works with states, cities, Tribal communities, and private industry to increase supply and administer testing and the vaccines that will help reopen schools and businesses safely. Equity will also be central to our strategy so that the communities and people being disproportionately infected and killed by the pandemic receive the care they need and deserve.

Our national strategy will be driven by scientists and public health experts who will regularly speak directly to you, free from political interference as they make decisions strictly on science and public health alone.

Above all, Vice President Harris and I, and our entire Administration, will always be honest and transparent with you about both the good news and the bad. The honest truth is we are still in a dark winter of this pandemic. It will get worse before it gets better. Progress will take time to measure as people getting infected today don’t show up in case counts for weeks, and those who perish from the disease die weeks after exposure. Even as we make progress, we will face setbacks. But I know we can do it, and that a true national strategy will take all of us working together. It will take Congress providing the necessary funding. Families and neighbors will need to continue looking out for one another. We will need health care providers, businesses, civic, religious and civil rights organizations, and unions all rallying together in common purpose and with urgency, purpose, and resolve. We will need to reassert America’s leadership in the world in the fight against this and future public health threats.
There are moments in history when more is asked of us as Americans. We are in that moment now and history will measure whether we were up to a task. Beating this pandemic will be one of the most difficult operational challenges we have ever faced as a nation. I believe we are ready, as fellow Americans and as the United States of America.

May God bless the lost souls of this pandemic, and all of you on the frontlines who define the best of who we are as Americans.

Sincerely,

President Joe Biden

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".....foster research into new treatments for covid-19, ...." HUAJIAO Jan 2021 #1
I heard that on the news last week BumRushDaShow Jan 2021 #2
Ivermectin has been used for decades safely. HUAJIAO Jan 2021 #5
Yes I saw some of that back when I was also watching the CDC & FDA Advisory Committee meetings BumRushDaShow Jan 2021 #8
Thanks for taking all the time to reply. HUAJIAO Jan 2021 #9
I think what you just mentioned BumRushDaShow Jan 2021 #11
Seriously? Bayard Jan 2021 #12
watch the videos and look at the FLCCCA website.... HUAJIAO Jan 2021 #13
At this point, the biggest problem is simply DeminPennswoods Jan 2021 #3
Agree with the "supply" issue BumRushDaShow Jan 2021 #6
That last part is a training issue DeminPennswoods Jan 2021 #10
When it comes to the large hospitals/hospital systems (and applicable associated academic sponsors) BumRushDaShow Jan 2021 #14
A fews weeks ago there was a report on CNN/MSNBC about DeminPennswoods Jan 2021 #15
Yes - that is what states have been doing, but in a hodge podge and inconsistent fashion BumRushDaShow Jan 2021 #18
Don't disagree with you, but I think we DeminPennswoods Jan 2021 #19
I agree about wasted doses BumRushDaShow Jan 2021 #20
I agree biggest problem is supply...... BIGGEST !! HUAJIAO Jan 2021 #7
Hoping Congress gets to a faster work pace now. ancianita Jan 2021 #4
Just saw a 100+ page plan on whitehouse.gov Midnightwalk Jan 2021 #16
I caught his remarks near the end BumRushDaShow Jan 2021 #17
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