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Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:32 UTC © Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden released his new strategy for fighting the coronavirus pandemic Thursday morning and will sign a host of new executive orders to achieve that end later in the day. The strategy itself features seven specific goals, according to senior White House officials: Restoring America's trust in the federal government Launch a more expansive vaccination plan Expand mask use, testing and the availability of public data Invoke the Defense Production Act to surge pandemic resources "Safely" reopen businesses and schools Prio...

by Chase Burns and Jasmyne Keimig • Jan 22, 2021 at 3:30 pm Stacks on stacks on stacks. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images We are only three days into this new era and the recently inaugurated president's hand is on fucking fire. President Biden has already signed over two dozen executive actions and proclamations, largely undoing many of Trump's most destructive policies. In his first week in office, Biden's orders primarily focused on bolstering the federal government's coronavirus response, reversing Trump's ass-backward environmental rollba...

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 outline what that means.  It’s possible that under this order the federal government may explore a ...

The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to address the disproportionate and severe impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on communities of color and other underserved populations, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated severe and pervasive health and social inequities in America. For instance, people of color experience systemic and structural racism in many facets of our society and are more likely to become sick and die ...

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...