“President-elect Joe Biden formally announced top members of his administration’s health care team — the first step in a sign of who might take the reins on the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of American health care in the coming years.”
“Among those Biden chose are California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Massachusetts General Hospital Chief of Infectious Diseases Dr. Rochelle Walensky, to be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
“Biden also announced health officials who he will task to lead efforts specifically against COVID-19. These include former Obama administration official Jeff Zients for COVID-19 response coordinator and Marcella Nunez-Smith as the chair of Biden’s new COVID-19 equity task force. Zients has been a part of the Biden transition, and Nunez-Smith co-chairs the transition’s COVID-19 advisory board.”
“The president-elect noted that he will also keep National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony Fauci on his COVID-19 response team. The two have been collaborating amid the transition, Biden added, to task the new team of health care leaders with three goals in mind for the first 100 days of the incoming administration, which are to:
- Form a universal masking plan that calls on federal spaces and mass transit to require mask-wearing, as well as working with state and local officials to encourage universal masking
- Deliver at least 100 million vaccinations to the American people within the first 100 days
- Make it a national priority to bring children back to in-person schooling…” Read the full article here.
Source: Biden Formally Announces Health Care Appointees, Public Health Priorities – By Melissa Harris, December 8, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
