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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 disease.” One of the initial executive orders he signed Wednesday requires mask-wearing and physic...

"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, Biden's White House coronavirus response coordinator. "And we've 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 Biden's team to create a strategy that will "fundamentally change the course of this pandemic," adding that the strategy is driven by "science, data and public health," not politics. "This is a nationa...

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 ...

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

Print this article President Biden's 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 team's strategy to slow the spread of COVID-19. The actions cover rolling out vaccines and ramping up testing so more businesses and schools ...