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Joe Biden on Sunday outlined how he would “safely reopen” the US economy amid the coronavirus outbreak — calling for ramped up testing and continued social distancing.

Arguing President Trump hasn’t “supplied an answer,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee offered the broad strokes of his “plan” in an op-ed for The New York Times, writing “the American people have already paid too high a price in illness, death and economic loss. This time, the White House has to get it right.”

“The plan has to start with responding effectively to the immediate medical crisis and ultimately lead to the widespread availability and administration of a vaccine. But we can’t stay home and just wait for the vaccine to arrive,” Biden wrote. “As others have noted, we need to build a bridge from here to there.”

First, he said the US should “significantly” reduce the number of new cases through the use of social distancing techniques and getting the supplies and equipment to health officials and hospitals.

“President Trump needs to use his full powers under the Defense Production Act to fight the disease with every tool at our disposal. He needs to get the federal response organized and stop making excuses. For more Americans to go back to their jobs, the president needs to do better at his job,” Biden wrote.

Testing should be “widespread” and “easily available,” he said.

“We should be running multiple times the number of diagnostic tests we’re performing right now. And we should be ready to scale up a second form of testing: rapid serology tests to tell who has already been infected with the coronavirus and has antibodies. This isn’t rocket science; it’s about investment and execution,” Biden said.

Hospitals and health-care providers have to be “ready for flare-ups” of the coronavirus that may happen as the economy tries to get back on track.

“Reopening the right way will still not be completely safe. Public health officials will need to conduct effective disease surveillance. Hospitals need to have the staff and equipment necessary to handle any local outbreaks, and we need an improved federal system to get help to these places as needed,” he said in the op-ed.

Still, he argued, “things will not go back to ‘normal’ right away.”

“As public health experts have said, we should expect activity to return gradually, with sites like offices and stores reopening before arenas and theaters,” Biden said.

“As we prepare to reopen America, we have to remember what this crisis has taught us: The administration’s failure to plan, to prepare, to honestly assess and communicate the threat to the nation led to catastrophic results. We cannot repeat those mistakes,” Biden wrote.

Trump said he is consulting with health-care experts, business leaders and lawmakers to come up with a plan to reopen the economy and will announce his decision “based on a lot of facts and a lot of instinct” soon.