President-elect Joe Biden's
transition team has still not been briefed by federal agencies on their
coronavirus plans, including vaccine distribution, but at his own news
conference, he talked about the possibility of a national mask mandate.
"We discussed the
implementation of a national mask mandate,” says Biden. “Ten governors,
Democrat and Republican, have imposed masking requirements and recognized the
need for universal masking, north, south, east and west. It's not a political
statement. It's a patriotic duty."
The president-elect says
he doesn't intend on putting the country into a national shutdown.