Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden

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Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020 Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020 at 4:00:09am PDT

Biden has all kinds of plans to address climate change. Click here for more details on that.

But Biden realizes that at risk communities are the ones that are already suffering from the changing climate so he has specific plans to help those communities.

Biden plans to:

Establish a Task Force to Decrease Risk of Climate Change to Children, the Elderly, People with Disabilities, and the Vulnerable.

The Task Force will identify the health impacts of climate change that will pose the largest risk to the most vulnerable populations and work across the Department and with other agencies to use a whole-of-government approach to decrease those risks, including baseline health inequities. In addition, this Task Force will be charged with developing a ready-to-deploy recovery strategy that ensures adequate housing for individuals displaced by climate disasters.

Establish an Office of Climate Change and Health Equity at HHS and Launch an Infectious Disease Defense Initiative.

This new HHS Office, in collaboration with the CDC, will partner with the Department of Defense to predict the infectious diseases with the highest probability of being exacerbated by climate change, evaluate their population risk, and work with additional federal agencies to accelerate the development of vaccines or other mitigation measures that reduce the risk to Americans.

Improve the resilience of the nation’s health care system and workers in the face of natural disasters.

Building on guidelines published in the Obama-Biden Administration, Biden will establish a biennial Health Care System Readiness Task Force, a public-private task force to assess the current state of the nation’s health care system resilience to natural disasters and recommend strategies and investments to improve it, which will include participation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

Joe Biden has actual plans to help the people who need it most through the biggest struggle of our time. More importantly, his plans are well thought out and influenced by expert opinion and the plans of Democrats in Congress and the Senate.