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President Biden moves to take a more assertive federal role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

TOP STORIESAfter months of watching from the sidelines as the coronavirus crisis worsened,is moving swiftly to try to assert control over the nation’s pandemic response — a marked shift from how former President Trump forced individual states to set their own courses.where Americans can receive shots. He also charged his administration with developing guidelines for reopening schools and improving data collection to track the battle against COVID-19.

Biden has cautioned that things will get worse before they get better. On Inauguration Day, the U.S. recorded a single-day record of 4,409 deaths, and it’s been averaging about 3,000 deaths a day for the last week. Projections show that the COVID-19 death toll, at roughly 410,000, could reach 500,000 next month.

However, some signs of improvement are evident: The number of daily cases and hospitalizations dropped in recent days.On Inauguration Day, Biden unveiled a comprehensive immigration reform proposal offeringfor some 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally and green cards to upwards of 1 million DACA recipients, people with temporary protected status and farmworkers.

But how he plans to deal with those wanting to come to the U.S. is less clear. Few along the border, from asylum seekers to U.S. agents, have answers for how Biden will confront the chaos there that he inherited from Trump:, as well as thousands more heading north, amid a pandemic that Trump used to close the border.

Biden has yet to answer himself. But the longer such uncertainty remains, the more the dangers for those involved grow.

 

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