Monday, February 1, 2021
On the second full day after President Biden took office, his administration released a broad-based, ambitious, 200-page National Strategy For The COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness (the “Plan”). The Plan’s stated objective is to “provide a roadmap to guide America out of the worst public health crisis in a century,” and sets forth seven goals to achieve that objective. The Plan emphasizes that the federal government’s actions will be founded in science and data and will be coordinated through a new COVID-19 Response Office.
Important for employers, however, is that the Plan’s success “requires sustained, coordinated, and complementary efforts of … groups across the country, including … health care providers; businesses; manufacturers critical to the supply chain, communities of color, and unions.”