Biden launches transition website with coronavirus as priority, names COVID-19 advisory board

Other top priorities listed on the Biden-Harris transition website include economic recovery, climate change

Published: November 9, 2020 7:23am

Updated: November 9, 2020 7:28am

President-elect Joe Biden has activated a presidential transition website with top priorities including the economic recovery, climate change and the coronavirus – along with a virus task force.

The task force will be led by co-chairpersons Dr. David Kessler, who served as FDA commissioner in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations; Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general in the Obama administration; and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a Yale University professor of internal medicine and public health.

Also on the task force, which is also called an advisory board, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who helped craft ObamaCare and a health policy adviser in the Obama administration.

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