Biden Establishes Public Health Job Corps To Aid COVID-19 Response

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday (Jan. 21) to set up a national public health job corps aimed at COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and vaccine outreach. The order establishes a U.S. Public Health Job Corps, which was laid out in Biden’s COVID-19 national response plan as a way to provide 100,000 contact tracers, community health workers and public health nurses to communities across the country. The job corps will be modeled after or developed as part of the...