President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan
On September 9, 2021, President Biden’s administration released the Path Out of The Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan that outlines six main components designed to provide economic, health, and safety relief to businesses, schools, and healthcare systems.
The six science-based components include:
- Vaccinating the Unvaccinated
- Furthering Protection for the Vaccinated
- Keeping Schools Safely Open
- Increasing Testing and Requiring Masking
- Protecting Our Economic Recovery
- Improving Care for Those with COVID-19
Additionally, the plan details the following issues that are most likely to impact NAMM member businesses and their families.
- Calls on large entertainment venues to require proof of vaccination or testing for entry
- Requires employers with 100+ employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly and requires employers to provide paid time off to get vaccinated. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will shortly release a rule on this with guidelines and additional information.
- Calls on all states to adopt vaccine requirements for all school employees and all K-12 school staff, faculty, and students to be COVID tested regularly
- Provides additional funding to school districts for safe school reopening, including backfilling salaries and other funding withheld by states for implementing COVID safety measures
- Strengthens the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, which provides long-term, low-cost loans to small businesses
- Streamlines Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness for small loans
- Increases support for COVID-burdened hospitals
NAMM will continue to monitor this and other issues impacting our members. Visit NAMM.org frequently to check for upcoming webinars on relevant topics that affect your business.