Presidential Document2022-07444
National Public Health Week, 2022
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April 6, 2022
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April 1, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 19779-19780]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07444]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 66 / Wednesday, April 6, 2022 /
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Proclamation 10363 of April 1, 2022
National Public Health Week, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Each year, National Public Health Week provides a
chance for all of us to come together to restore and
strengthen the public health of our Nation. As we have
seen so starkly over the past 2 years, public health is
essential to every part of our National life--not only
to the safety and well-being of our families and
communities but also to our prosperity. This week, we
celebrate the progress we have made to revitalize our
public health, recommit ourselves to the work that
still remains, and recognize all of the remarkable
health care workers and public health professionals
whose extraordinary sacrifice and courage on the front
lines have carried our Nation through one of the most
difficult periods in our history.
Thanks to our brave and dedicated public health and
health care workforce, the resilience of the American
people, and our comprehensive strategy to tackle COVID-
19, our Nation is far better positioned today than we
were a year ago. Vaccines and boosters have been proven
to offer the highest level of protection--and today,
more than 250 million Americans have stepped up to
protect themselves and their communities by getting at
least one shot, saving more than a million American
lives. We are ready with millions of antiviral
treatments that reduce your chance of ending up in the
hospital by 90 percent. We are continuing to vaccinate
the world, having sent over half a billion vaccine
doses to 114 countries with more to come.
My Administration has made hundreds of millions of
tests available for Americans to order directly to
their homes for free. We have successfully reopened
schools and businesses across the country, most
Americans can now go safely mask-free, and together we
are moving forward safely back to more normal routines.
We have positioned ourselves well to detect and prepare
for new variants and have more tools to protect people
than ever before--but making sure these tools are
readily available requires additional funding from the
Congress. We urgently need the Congress to provide the
funding we have requested to maintain our preparedness
against COVID-19 and ensure the American people
continue to have access to treatments, vaccines, and
tests. The consequences of inaction are severe and
immediate, and they will only get more significant over
time.
While COVID-19 remains a top public health priority, we
are committed to a full range of efforts to improve the
Nation's general health, safety, and resilience. Last
year, through the American Rescue Plan and other
actions, we expanded access to--and lowered the cost
of--quality health care for millions of Americans. In
addition, we made new investments in mental health
services; innovative health care technologies; our
public health and health care workforce; and maternal,
infant, and early childhood programs. Through the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are also helping to
address long-standing health inequities that have
burdened communities of color and low-income
neighborhoods for far too long. Because of this law, we
are beginning to replace poisonous lead pipes so that
every child, in every home and school in America,
finally has clean water to drink. By making landmark
investments in public transit and delivering high-
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speed internet to every single community in the
country, we are also making health care and telehealth
services more accessible to each and every family.
Of course, there is much more that we need to do to
improve our public health and build a better America.
As we continue our fight to defeat the pandemic, we
must also continue to expand health coverage and lower
the cost of health care for every family--including the
cost of prescription drugs like insulin. We must make
transformational investments in our climate resilience
and continue to address dangerous environmental
injustices that threaten public health and have hit
communities of color the hardest. We must take
commonsense steps to address the public health epidemic
of gun violence, which disproportionately impacts Black
Americans. We must come together to address the toll
that the mental health epidemic takes on America's
children, deliver the physical and mental health care
that our veterans and service members deserve, and make
landmark investments to spark breakthroughs in our
fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and other
diseases.
During National Public Health Week, we recommit
ourselves to reaching these goals--to improve our
public health and, in so doing, improve our safety and
security, our economic strength, the equity and
fairness of our Nation, and our quality of life.
Together, we share our appreciation to all those who
safeguard the Nation's public health through acts of
service and those who seek to strengthen communities by
fostering equitable opportunities for all. My
Administration encourages all Americans to do their
part for public health--especially by getting
vaccinated and receiving a booster shot, if eligible.
It takes all of us to preserve the health of our
Nation, and together we are poised to make tremendous
progress to build a better, stronger, and healthier
America.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 4
through April 10, 2022, as National Public Health Week.
I call on all citizens, government agencies, private
businesses, non-profit organizations, and other groups
to take action to improve the health of our Nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
first day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
sixth.
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