Joe Biden released a blueprint for his plan to reopen the country today in which he called on President Trump to launch an all-out effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine as fast as possible
In the memo, Biden also proposed developing a public health jobs corps of 100,000 people to assist with testing and a coordinated global approach to developing a vaccine; “The only way to stop COVID-19 here, is to stop it everywhere,” he said.
Biden called for Trump to create a Pandemic Testing Board akin to former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s War Production Board that would scale up production and “oversee a nationwide campaign to provide both diagnostic and antibody tests.” Researchers are split about how much the U.S. needs to ramp up testing to safely reopen but conservative estimates call for the country to test eight-tenths of one percent of the national population to be tested each week; theA lack of testing has beset the U.S. since the beginning of the outbreak, an issue federal officials say is the result of supply chain issues and a“We are not in a situation where we can say we are exactly where we want to be with regard to testing,” Dr.
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