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White House News (白宮消息) | Jan. 22, 2021

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JANUARY 21, 2021
President Biden Delivers Remarks on COVID-19 Response
President Biden outlined his coronavirus pandemic relief plan from the White House State Dining Room. The president warned Americans that, “things are going to continue to get worse before they get better” saying the death toll in the U.S. would likely top five hundred thousand next month. He then set out his plan to combat the coronavirus promising, “help is on the way.” President Biden signed ten executive orders as part of the administration’s plan to address the pandemic. They included plans to utilize the Defense Production Act to improve testing, treatment and vaccination distribution; provide new guidelines to keep workers safe; issue an equitable response for minority communities most impacted by the virus; implement new international travel restrictions; reopen schools safely; improve communications between the federal government and the states; and maintain better COVID-19 related data. 



Biden’s Covid team grapples with a basic question: Where’s all the vaccine?
States are warning they're running out of the vaccine, with little sense of when more will arrive.


Jan. 22 - As President Joe Biden spent his first full day in office issuing executive actions aimed at containing the coronavirus, his administration scrambled to get a handle on a key unanswered question: How much vaccine is actually available?

Conflicting accounts of supply totals have bedeviled federal and state health officials, complicating the new administration's sweeping pandemic response plan and casting fresh doubts on how long it will take Biden to bring the virus under control.

Just about half of the nearly 38 million Covid-19 shots distributed by the federal government have been administered to date, according to Centers for Disease Control data. That indicates there’s a glut of unused doses around the country.
But states are warning they're running out of the vaccine, with little sense of when more will arrive.     continue to read
White House press briefing — 1/21/2021
How Joe Biden's Oval Office decor is different from Donald Trump's
The 46th president is paying homage to historic figures like Franklin D. Roosevelt, César Chávez and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with his decor choices.

Jan. 22 - Joe Biden has only been president for a day, but he's already put his stamp on the Oval Office.

Photos of the office of the newly inaugurated 46th president show an Oval Office centered around a large painting of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well an appreciation of historic figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and César Chávez.

The portrait of Roosevelt hangs across from the Resolute Desk and pays tribute to a Democratic president who steered the nation through a difficult period of myriad crises, a task Biden now faces himself.     continue to read