COVID RESPONSE & VACCINATION PLAN

1. Request and distribute all available federal pandemic funding for South Carolina.

2. Partner with the CDC, as well as federal and state public health experts, to ensure that SC is implementing best practices with regard to vaccines, variants, safety protocols, resources and other critical information.

3. Advise local governments to use American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds and other COVID federal and state recovery funds to incentivize local constituencies to get vaccinated.

4. Implement a statewide mask mandate until state vaccination rates are 70% and above.

5. Require state employees to get vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID testing.

6. Require school-aged children, ages 17 and under to show proof of immunization to COVID-19 and related variants (as applicable) to attend SC public (K-12) schools, colleges & universities.

7. Appoint public health ombudsmen (by county and/or region). This multicultural, multiethnic, multidisciplinary team of public health experts and community leaders, supported by marketing campaign strategists, will partner with local health departments to collaboratively field questions, address concerns, disseminate accurate info, resolve complaints, develop & promote targeted pro-vaccination public awareness campaigns and increase accessibility to vaccines; Utilizing these types of public-private partnerships will help debunk myths, dispel rumors, counter misleading rhetoric and fears caused by targeted misinformation and provide much needed guidance, goal-setting and measurable action steps to reach herd-immunity.

8. Partner with local businesses & trucking companies to provide refrigerated trucks to county health departments for the purpose of storing and preserving vaccines that must be stored in frigid temperatures.