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(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s first policy focus after being sworn in? Overhauling the disjointed federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed another 4,400 American lives on his first day in office alone. “The brutal truth is, it’s going to take months before we can get the majority of Americans vaccinated,” Biden said Thursday. “So while we increase vaccinations, we’re going to take steps necessary now to slow the spread of the ...

"For almost a year now, Americans could not look to the federal government for any strategy, let alone a comprehensive approach to respond to COVID," said Jeff Zients, Bidens White House coronavirus response coordinator. "And weve seen the tragic costs of that failure. As President Biden steps into office, that all changes." Zients called the plan the "culmination of months of efforts" from Bidens team to create a strategy that will "fundamentally change the course of this pandemic," adding tha...

IV. Record Thine COVID Data Executive Order on Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats This order is all about data. While it doesn’t go into much detail, it does stress the president’s desire to enhance data collection around the virus — presumably infections, contact tracing, and the like. It calls for a “stronger public health infrastructure” to help “prevent, detect, and respond to future biological threats” but does not ou...

On Day 2, Biden To Focus On COVID-19 Strategy With 10 Executive Actions

Print this article President Bidens first full day in office will focus on the coronavirus pandemic, including new executive actions that signal a more aggressive federal approach than that employed by the Trump administration, according to the White House. With Biden aides complaining that the Trump administration left them with no national plan to follow, the new president on Thursday will sign 10 executive orders and other actions to jump-start his teams strategy to slow the spread of COVID...

Biden unveils coronavirus plan, warns it will take months to turn things around Jessie Hellmann and Morgan Chalfant © Getty Images Biden unveils coronavirus plan, warns it will take months to turn things around President Biden on Thursday unveiled a comprehensive strategy to address the coronavirus pandemic while warning that it would take months for his administrations actions to significantly alter the trajectory of the pandemic. Biden, seeking to manage expectations as the...

The president will invoke the Defense Production Act to boost the supply of testing and vaccination supplies, among a range of other directives.

The president will invoke the Defense Production Act to boost the supply of testing and vaccination supplies, among a range of other directives.

This is a wartime undertaking: Biden signs 10 orders aimed at COVID-19 on first full day in White House Joey Garrison, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled his administrations strategy to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, signing 10 executive orders and other directives to jump-start the expansive effort. After 15 Day One executive orders Wednesday that spanned a variety of subjects, Biden used his first full day in office to requi...

Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Originally published on January 21, 2021 2:00 pm Updated at 3:36 p.m. ET President Biden signed a series of orders and directives on his second day in office to take charge of stopping the spread of the coronavirus — steps that he and his advisers say will start to boost testing, vaccinations, supplies and treatments. "While the vaccine provides so much hope, the rollout has been a dismal failure thus far. So I understand the despair and frustration o...