HCAOA The Voice Winter 2020

15 Winter 2020 Protect Older Americans and Other High-Risk Individuals • Establish a U.S. Public Health Jobs Corps to mobilize at least 100,000 Americans across the country with support from trusted local organi- zations in communities most at risk to perform culturally competent approaches to contact tracing and protecting at-risk populations. • Establish a COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Task Force, as proposed by Vice President-Elect Harris, to provide recommen- dations and oversight on disparities in the public health and economic response. At the end of this health crisis, it will transition to a permanent Infectious Disease Racial Dispari- ties Task Force. • Create the Nationwide Pandemic Dashboard that Americans can check in real-time to help them gauge whether the local transmission is actively occurring in their zip codes. This information is critical to helping all individ- uals, but especially older Americans and others at high risk, understand what level of precaution to take. President-Elect Biden has expressed support for the home care industry, saying his Administration will make it “far easier to afford child care and to ensure aging relatives and people with disabilities have better access to home and community-based care.” Learn more about the Build Back Better plan at https://buildbackbetter.com