What's 'test to treat,' a key tenet of the White House's new COVID-19 strategy?

Joe Biden.
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To further combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the White House on Wednesday unveiled a new roadmap focused on moving the nation to a new stage of the pandemic in which the virus does not upend Americans' lives, CNN reports.

The plan, detailed in a 96-page report, is centered around four main goals, NPR writes: "protect against and treat COVID-19, prepare for new variants, prevent business and school shutdowns," and "help vaccinate the rest [of the] world and save lives."

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.