Pedro Vilela/Getty Images President Joe Biden released a comprehensive COVID-19 national strategy on his first full day in office, providing a road map aimed at guiding the United States out of the pandemic. The wide-ranging plan is organized around seven main goals, many of which rely on data-sharing as a core tactic. "We can and will beat COVID-19. America deserves a response to the COVID-19 pandemic that is driven by science, data, and public health – not politics," read the strategy's executive summary. WHY IT MATTERS Biden's plan hammers on the importance of data gathering and sharing as primary tenets of an effective COVID-19 response.