Biden to sign 10 more orders and directives aimed at COVID-19 on first full day in White House

[Elderberry]

Des Moines Register by Joey Garrison 1/21/2021

Biden to sign 10 more orders and directives aimed at COVID-19 on first full day in White House

 President Joe Biden's early burst of executive action will continue Thursday as he signs 10 orders and other directives aimed at jump-starting the administration's national strategy to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic.

After signing 15 executive orders Wednesday, Biden intends to use his first full day in office to use executive authority to require masks in most planes, trains and airports, order a national strategy to reopen schools and create a new "testing board" to expand testing for the virus

New orders and directives being signed Thursday are to:

1. Direct federal agencies to exercise all appropriate authorities, including invoking the Defense Production Act, to accelerate manufacturing and delivery to meet shortfalls in equipment and supplies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. Establish the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board to bring the "full force of the federal government’s expertise" to expanding testing supply and increasing access to testing. The order includes directing federal agencies to facilitate testing free of charge for those

who lack health insurance and to clarify insurers’ obligation to cover testing.

3. Direct new studies – including large-scale randomized trials – to identify treatments for COVID-19 with a focus on addressing the needs of diverse populations. The order will direct federal agencies to expand their data infrastructure to increase the collection and sharing of data to support an equitable COVID-19 response and recovery.

More: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/21/joe-biden-sign-executive-orders-and-directives-aimed-covid-19/4219616001/

[mountaineer]

Thank goodness someone finally is doing something about the Wuhan Flu!!

/sarcasm

[Hoodat]

2. Establish the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board to bring the "full force of the federal government’s expertise" to expanding testing supply and increasing access to testing. The order includes directing federal agencies to facilitate testing free of charge for those who lack health insurance and to clarify insurers’ obligation to cover testing.

The State of Georgia already offers free testing.  Is this not the case in other States?

[Wingnut]

JoBama's adding layers of bureaucracy because it is a tried and true way of getting things done expediently and cost effective. 

[skeeter]

He said he was gonna have to move heaven and earth to get this Covid thing licked and by gosh he means it.

[Hoodat]

He said he was gonna have to move heaven and earth to get this Covid thing licked and by gosh he means it.

He seems to be offering things that Trump has already done.

[skeeter]

He seems to be offering things that Trump has already done.

What better way to honor his campaign promise?

[mountaineer]

The State of Georgia already offers free testing.  Is this not the case in other States?

Yes. That has been the case for quite a while in my state (long before China Joe took the oath).

[christian]

The Chinese flu has already been acknowledged as wrecking our economy, the democrats are now admitting they are going to full bore increase the damage it has done in restrictions to our nation.
  As Adolf H. said, How fortunate for governments that people do not think.