How Biden Plans To Meticulously Sanitize The White House After Trump Leaves

President-elect Joe Biden has plans to clean up the White House – literally and figuratively.

As part of the transition process, Biden has a coronavirus strategy that will carry out an intense sanitation of the entire White House on move-in day to avoid an outbreak of COVID-19 for him and his team, Politico reported.

The cleanup protocol comes as Biden lays out his response plan for combating the coronavirus as part of his transition process into the White House. From a face mask mandate for 100 days to more widely available and free COVID testing,

Biden’s approach differs from the current Trump strategy and is even more apparent in the president-elect’s plan to move into the White House. With plans to have the majority of his team work remotely at first, Biden will have only a skeleton crew on-site.

But before they get there, the White House will be scrubbed from top to bottom to avoid an embarrassing outbreak that has plagued Trump and his team while claiming that the pandemic was being managed and under control.

A spokesperson for the General Services Administration told Politico that the agency’s team will sweep the White House’s East and West Wings just hours after Trump leaves and Biden moves in to ensure that the coronavirus doesn’t linger on any surfaces.

The cleaning will include a thorough disinfecting and sanitation of all furniture, doorknobs, handrails, and light switches, as well as the hiring of a private contractor to use “disinfectant misting services” to clear the air of any lingering coronavirus droplets, the spokesperson told the news outlet.

“It’ll be the polar opposite of what you’re seeing now,” Nicole Lurie, a former HHS assistant secretary of emergency and preparedness under the Obama administration and also an advisor to Biden on his COVID-19 response, told Politico.

The safety protocols that Biden and his team have implemented will be reviewed and reassessed every two weeks, which Politico said has not been easy to maintain, but have kept the 78-year-old from contracting the virus as well as nearly everyone in his sphere of influence.

“We need to level with each other,” Biden said Tuesday. “We’re in a dark winter. Things may well get worse before they get better. … We didn’t get into this mess quickly, and it’ll take time to fix.”

The U.S. has reported over 15.3 million positive coronavirus case, with over 289,400 COVID-related deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.