President-elect Joe Biden says one of his first acts as president will be to ask Americans to wear masks for 100 straight days early next year.
Biden is backing off an idea of a nationwide mask mandate, saying it would be past his ability to enforce that, but he has said mask-wearing is a patriotic duty to slow the coronavirus spread across the country.
The is a sharp shift from current President Donald Trump, who has largely dismissed mask use as a tool to slow the virus.
President-elect Biden is also supporting a $900 billion compromise stimulus package which includes expanded unemployment benefits but does not include stimulus checks to citizens, based on the current framework.
Johns Hopkins University says there have been over 14 million cases of coronavirus throughout the pandemic. The death toll is over 270,000.
