1. What concern did audience member Dr. Dessie Levy express to President Biden about the distribution of covid vaccines to black and Hispanic Americans?

2. What concerns did President Biden express about Black and Hispanic Americans’:
a) Access to the vaccine
b) Ability to get to a vaccination location
c) Ability to register for the vaccine online

3. Prior to President Biden’s statement during the CNN Townhall that “we’re also trying to set up mass vaccination centers, like places in stadiums and the like,” cities in many states had already set up vaccination centers at sports arenas and stadiums, including various MLB, NFL and NBA stadiums, fairgrounds and convention centers.
a) Do you think the federal government under President Biden’s Coronavirus Task Force should take over the coordination of vaccine centers in the states - or do you think each states’s governor and health department should establish their own systems as they have already been doing? Explain your answer.
b) Ask a parent the same question.

4. How did President Biden respond to the question audience member Jessica Salas asked for her daughter: “My children…often ask if they will catch COVID, and if they do, will they die. They are watching as others get the vaccine, and they would like to know when will kids be able to get the vaccine.”

5. Audience member Kevin Michel, a father of four, asked President Biden, “What is the plan and recommendation to get students back into the brick-and-mortar buildings? …I find it imperative that they get back to school as safely as possible.”
a) What specifics did President Biden give for his plan on how/when students will be able to return to in-school classes?
b) Are you encouraged by President Biden’s plan? Explain your answer.
c) Note: Some school districts never went virtual; schools in many cities including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, etc. have not yet returned to any in-school classes; or returned for a short period only to go all virtual again - some with no end date set yet.
Do you think the federal government should mandate how/when every school district returns to regular in-school classes? Or should individual states (or counties/school districts) each have their own plan? Explain your answer.
d) Ask a parent the same question.
e) Discuss with a parent: If a school district (for example, Chicago) is keeping schools all virtual but parents and students are calling for schools to re-open, should the governor or the president order the district to establish a plan to open? Considering states’ rights, does the president have the legal authority to do so?

6. Before he was inaugurated, President Biden said his goal was to get students back to school full-time in his first 100 days in office. Last week his White House press secretary Jen Psaki said his goal was to have students return for at least one day a week. The president then corrected her, saying this had been reported in error. He told CNN’s Anderson Cooper his goal is for K-8 students to return to school five days a week. For what reasons does the president exclude high school students from his goal of returning students to the classroom?
Do you agree with President Biden? Explain your answer.

7. a) What do you know about the human rights abuses in China against the ethnic Muslim Uyghers?
b) What do you think about President Biden’s response to Anderson Cooper’s question “What about the Uyghurs?  What about the human rights abuses in China?”