Wednesday, March 2, 2022

White House Unveils New COVID-19 Strategy as Country Moves to ‘A More Normal Routine'

The Biden administration on March 2 unveiled a rejiggered COVID-19 strategy that President Joe Biden said would help the country get back to "a more normal routine."

If funded by Congress, it will also expand research at the National Institute of Health and launch new "Centers of excellence" across the country meant to help people with "Long COVID.".

"This plan lays out the roadmap to help us fight COVID-19 in the future as we move America from crisis to a time when COVID-19 does not disrupt our daily lives and is something we prevent, protect against, and treat," the White House said.

During his State of the Union speech on March 1, Biden touted his administration's efforts to distribute vaccines, provide tests and masks, and purchase COVID therapeutics.

Biden also promised to order more COVID tests to be distributed for free.

White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters on March 2 that the Department of Health and Human Services had briefed Congress on the near-term cost of its new COVID plan and was still finalizing the long-term costs to relate in its request to Congress.

The administration's new COVID plan comes days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed its guidance for indoor mask-wearing to say that now more than 70 percent of the country is not at high risk.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-admin-to-request-more-funding-from-congress-for-covid-19-plan_4312346.html 

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