RE:RE:Biden plan From an editor-in-chief at Yahoo Finance:
So, accepting my not-so-little caveat about Biden ultimately winning, what should Biden do upon becoming president two months hence, given that he will be facing a nation that is deeply divided and still fighting a raging pandemic? Here are my thoughts.
(By the way, if Trump somehow does stay in office, he could take on these priorities too, but as you will see, in many instances he couldn’t or wouldn’t.)
COVID-19
The case count is soaring—up to 132,000 yesterday—the worst levels ever, and yet the pandemic was put on the back burner this past week. Tragically this may continue until the election is figured out. Day one for the new president—and I am sure he’ll have this planned out in advance—we need a national program with flexible regional policies and authority for fighting the pandemic. We need clear and consistent messaging. The federal government needs to fund and take charge of testing and make “rapid testing” a redundancy. We need a system for contact tracing. We should wear masks in public and limit the size of social gatherings. Next, and again, I’m sure he’s got this, Biden needs to ready a plan to distribute vaccines as well as therapeutics not just in the U.S., but for the world (yes we’re going to get some globalism back here, see below.) We need to re-engage with the WHO, re-empower the CDC, and ask Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, if he will officially become our COVID-19 Czar.