For Biden Covid is there and must be fought: a new message and a new strategy. The battle is not won, but to be done. Joe Biden says the opposite of what Donald Trump said about Covid. Only the final goal is common. “We will defeat the pandemic”, said the new American president, adding however, “Before the turnaround the death toll will become even more tragic, half a million next month.”
The pandemic plan was the topic of Biden’s first day of work at the White House.
The president has decided the mobilization of the National Guard and civil protection for vaccines, the opening of stadiums (the Mets in New York and the baseball teams of San Diego and Los Angeles had already done so), gyms and neighborhood social centers for the poorest sections of the population so far not reached and the recruitment federal staff to increase vaccinations. Amazon has offered to enhance the logistics in the distribution of doses.
We will get this virus under control. pic.twitter.com/59iC1nyR0N
– President Biden (@POTUS) January 22, 2021
“We inherit a situation even worse than expected, the absence of a real federal plan for the distribution of vaccines, the incompetence” they say from the new administration compared to what the Trump government had done. In reality, vaccinations are more advanced than in Europe with 16.5 million vaccinated, 5% of the population. The goal is one million vaccinated per day (to reach a third of the population in the first 100 days of mandate) and the doses currently available are 19 million.
Yesterday, President Biden reversed the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization. And this morning, Dr. Fauci joined his first meeting as the head of our delegation. Here’s what he said: pic.twitter.com/yvv2ojcfXh
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 22, 2021
Biden also proposes a law to enforce more production, it is a war law that allows factories to be forced to produce, the Defense Production Act. Pfizer and Moderna will have preferential lanes for procurement. Hence the fear in Europe of a smaller supply for the EU. Investments in research on anti-Covid therapies are also increasing.
Not only vaccine, Biden has also imposed the federal obligation of masks in offices and public spaces, as well as on means of transport. The US has also returned to the World Health Organization, a more formal decision than anything else. Perhaps stronger is the choice to re-enter the Paris climate agreements already signed by Obama with the commitment to limit the temperature increase to below two degrees centigrade compared to pre-industrial levels.
Among the measures signed there are The revocation of the Travel ban against some countries with a Muslim majority and the elimination of the emergency declaration used by Trump to raise funds to build the wall on the border with Mexico.
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