White House wants to send masks to every home within weeks to try to get people wearing them, Joe Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain reveals
- Biden has asked Americans to go out for 100 days
- The Trump administration rejected the proposal, instead sending masks to health departments
- Trump himself has been criticized for not making a model of mask use
- Chief of staff Ron Klain says the news could come within days
- White House wants ‘back on track’
President Joe Biden’s administration is reviving a proposal to put a mask on American homes in so many people continue to reject health guidelines that experts say could be even more effective in the future. short-term vaccinations.
Biden has been promoting 100 days of mask wear in an effort to stop infections, with last 7-day average infections declining but coronavirus deaths are still at alarming rates similar to those in the summer .
White House chief of staff Ron Klain said an announcement was forthcoming.
President Joe Biden is pushing 100 days of mask wear, and his administration is considering sending masks to U.S. homes
This was an idea that surfaced last year in the Trump administration. The public health bodies suggested that the president suspended him for some reason, ‘he told NBC.
‘We want to get this back on track. We are looking at what can be done to do this quickly with the resources we have. Hopefully in the next few days or weeks, we may be able to name some progress on this. But, of course, this is part of a whole plan to try to eradicate every American in those first 100 days. We’re going to do what we can to make it easier for people to increase the supply of masks and, of course, get people to wear those masks, ‘said Klain.
NBC reported earlier Thursday that the idea was being considered. Back in April, with the pandemic, the administration canceled a plan to send millions of clothing masks to U.S. homes, instead distributing them to states and nonprofits.
The Department of Health and Human Services dispensed 600 million masks through other means.
White House chief of staff Ron Klain has called for the idea of sending masks to US homes ‘back on track’
The Biden administration wants to revive the idea of sending masks to Americans
NBC reported a store in Florida with an alarmingly low rate of mask wear
The shop owner declared a death toll of 400,000 coronavirus ‘hogwash,’ although his number was lower than the total
There was a severe shortage of early surgical and medical standards mask in the pandemic, and the Biden Administration continues to use the Defense Representation Act to test some essential medical products.
Biden himself weaves regularly in public, even from time to time inside the Oval Office at television events.
It was not immediately clear how the masks would be distributed; wither it would overboard or to the hardest areas; or take out areas where people refuse masks.
Experts have relied on persuasion to try to persuade people to put up with the inconvenience of masks, which have been found to be effective in preventing the virus. But it’s not just cost or accessibility that is holding people back, as several stores now carry a mix of more expensive, single-use clothing and n-95 masks.
Not everyone, including Florida, buys it supermarket an owner who says they don’t work. Video of the store, with staff and customers without an audience, surprised viewers and drew heavy online comments, amidst a state where seniors are fighting a pandemic. with respiratory disease.