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

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.