President-Elect Joe Biden has reportedly named former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner David Kessler and Yale University’s Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith as co-chairs of a 12-person COVID-19 task force
Biden plans to announce the entire team on Monday, according to CNN and The New York Post.
Murthy, who was appointed to a four-year term as surgeon general by President Barack Obama in 2014, was fired by President Donald Trump in April 2017.
Kessler was named FDA commissioner by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and served through 1997 during President Bill Clinton’s first term.
Nunez-Smith is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Public Health, and Management at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut.
Biden, who has been sharply critical of Trump’s management of the pandemic, said this week that he and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris have already been talking with public health and economic experts, in part to be prepared to address the pandemic immediately when they take office in January.
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