Biden to invoke orders to overhaul US approach to combat the virus crisis
- Biden to sign order to give employers guidance on worker safety
- Biden to sign order for studies to identify coronavirus treatments
- Biden to create pandemic testing board, improve data collection
- Biden to use Defense Production Act to boost vaccine, PPE, testing supplies
- Biden to sign order on airport mask-wearing, air travel tests
He is expected to sign off on these orders today, reversing much of Trump's approach, according to the Bloomberg report which cites a Biden administration hearing.
Although Biden does promise to increase vaccine supply, the timeline in which the vaccine will be made available to the mass public is still relatively unknown for now. But he does pledge to vaccinate 100 million people in 100 days, so we'll see.
