Analysis | Four things experts say the Biden administration can do to rein in the pandemic

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Analysis: Four things experts say the Biden administration can do to rein in the pandemic

Story continues below advertisementOSHA wrote in a court filing on Friday in response to a suit filed by theand other labor organizations that it would “re-prioritize its resources to focus on finalizing a permanent” standard.

“The Agency currently anticipates that it will be able to complete this rulemaking within six to nine months,” the agency wrote.The Biden administration has touted its efforts to send hundreds of millions of vaccine doses to countries that need them. But some global health experts say it's not nearly., professor who advised Biden’s transition team on the pandemic. “It’s larger than any commitment made by any other country, but it is grossly inadequate.

The administration, for instance, has pointed to its efforts to train thousands of community health care workers around the world. But “the scale of everything that’s been done so far is not even in the right order of magnitude of the need,”’s Global Health Innovation Center, told us. “We know that there are millions of additional workforce that are gonna be needed.

“That’s not in any way a reflection on Jeff Zients as an individual or his capabilities,” Udayakumar said. “I don’t think there’s anybody that could do both of those jobs well.”Asked about Goosby’s call for the administration to make better use of its infrastructure set up to combat HIV abroad in support of covid vaccination efforts, a White House official pointed to the $250 million for such programs that was included last year in Biden’s covid relief bill.

 

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