Biden's COVID-19 Advisorbr Speaks in Favor of abr Nationwide Lockdown.br Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member ofbr President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 “advisory board,”br has spoken out about the benefits of a lockdown. .br He told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday that thebr United States has a “big pool of money” available to helpbr get the economy back on track during a lockdown. .br We could pay for a package right now to coverbr all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers,br for losses to small companies, to medium-sizedbr companies or city, state, county governments, Dr. Michael Osterholm, via CNBC.br With those measures in place,br Osterholm said the U.S. could br lock down for “four to six weeks.”.br According to Osterholm, doing sobr would allow the U.S. to easily cruise intobr 2021’s stage of "vaccine availability.".br We could really watch ourselves cruisingbr into the vaccine availability in the first andbr second quarter of next year while bringingbr back the economy long before that, Dr. Michael Osterholm, via CNBC.br Osterholm previously argued in favorbr of a nationwide lockdown in an Augustbr op-ed for ‘The New York Times.'.br Osterholm and Minneapolis Federalbr Reserve President Neel Kashkari saidbr the lockdown in early 2020 failed becausebr it was not “uniformly stringent.” .