With talk of a vaccine in time for Election Day ramping up, both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and incumbent Donald Trump continue to confront the pandemic as a major talking point for the presidential election, now 2 months away.Yesterday, during a campaign speech, Biden called Trump’s failure to safely open schools, especially elementary schools, a "national emergency.""Let me be clear," Biden said. "If President Trump and his administration had done their jobs early on in this crisis, American schools would be open.
And they'd be open safely."Biden said his administration would spend $200 billion in new funding to reconfigure classrooms, improve ventilation and take other steps to allow for social distancing within existing