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US President-elect Joe Biden announced plans to speed up vaccination, saying, “Stay in a very dark winter”, in relation to the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) situation on the 15th (local time) .
Biden said in a speech in Wilmington, Delaware that day that the crown19 situation in the United States will get worse before it gets better.
He noted that the cumulative death toll for Corona 19 in the United States is approaching a grim milestone of 400,000. “It’s shocking,” he said. “It is a miserable failure.”
Biden announced that it will expand the supply of syringes, needles, glass bottles and various equipment necessary for vaccination through private companies using the defense material production method.
Biden said: “Now the health of the country is literally in jeopardy, so it’s time to set big goals and go after them with courage and confidence.”
On the first day of his inauguration, he announced that he would direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish federally funded community immunization centers in places such as school gyms, sports centers and community centers.
Biden said he is planning thousands of community vaccination centers.
He said he would use mobile pharmacies and clinics, in addition to promoting vaccination programs in high-risk settings, such as homeless shelters, jails, and centers for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Biden said he would vaccinate all people over 65 and front-line workers, repeatedly stating his goal of vaccinating 100 million people by the 100th day after taking office.
Biden said he would sign an executive order requiring the public to wear masks in the area where it is authorized.
It travels between states and states via federal buildings, trains and planes, he said.
He also said he would ask state and local governments to enforce the order to wear masks by spring.
“I want to know now that this is not a political issue,” Biden said, “this is about saving lives.”
“I know it has become a partisan problem, but this is the patriotic action that we ask of you,” he said. “We are at war with this virus.”
Additionally, regarding the next administration’s response plan, the transition committee said that Biden would help expand vaccination by approving several experts who can administer the vaccine, and that it would ask Congress to hire more than 100,000 public health experts. . Said.
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