Biden Administration Taking Additional Steps Against the Spread of the Coronavirus

Yesterday White House Covid-19 Senior Adviser Jeff Zients announced that the Biden Administration is taking additional steps to stem the spread of the Coronavirus. During a team briefing Zients announced the government will be “sending $100 million to rural health clinics to support vaccine education and outreach efforts” in communities that are generally seeing a low vaccine uptake. That funding which comes from the Covid Relief Package passed earlier this year is expected to provide nearly 2,000 rural health clinics with ‘the resources they need to better reach unvaccinated Americans in their communities with information about Covid-19 and the vaccines.

In addition, the administration is also doubling down on testing efforts and making ‘an additional $1.6 billion investment in American Rescue Plan funding to bolster testing and mitigation measures in high-risk congregate settings’. The additional funding will go towards testing at homeless shelters,  mental health and substance abuse treatment centers, domestic violence shelters and prison systems.