US President-elect Joe Biden urged, Thursday, America to mask up for 100 days as coronavirus surges, noting that he’d be happy to get inoculated in public to assuage any concerns about the vaccine's efficacy and safety.
“On the first day I’m inaugurated, I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask,” Biden said in his interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. “Just 100 days to mask, not forever, just 100 days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction.”
“People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work,” Biden added, affirming that “It matters what a president and the vice president do.”
Biden mentioned that he met the Democratic and Republican state governors, stating that they need guidance and money to get over what is happening due to the virus.
The president-elect called for lawmakers on Capitol Hill to pass a coronavirus aid bill, expressing full support for a $900 billion compromise bill that a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced this week.
“That would be a good start. It’s not enough,” the president-elect said. “I’m going to need to ask for more help.”
In the same context, he mentioned in the interview that he had asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, who Trump has marginalized and insulted, to continue his current role as the nation's top infectious diseases specialist in his administration.
"I asked him to stay on the exact same role he's had for the past several presidents, and I asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well, and be part of the Covid team," he added in his interview.
He stressed that he and Fauci spoke about the fact that he did not have to close down the economy if Americans followed through with other safety protocols to prevent the spread of the virus.
"When Dr. Fauci says we have a vaccine that is safe, that's the moment in which I will stand before the public and say that," he stated.
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