Biden’s health picks signal a bottom-up approach to the Covid-19 pandemic
President-elect Biden’s pandemic-response strategy took clearer shape this week with the rollout of several surprising appointments — a list that underscores that his Covid-19 response will be led far more by career government scientists and lower-level health agency deputies than has been the case during the Trump administration.
For his highest-profile health care positions, Biden tapped longtime Washington insiders, Xavier Becerra, a congressman of two decades and California’s attorney general, and Jeffrey Zients, an Obama administration economist. They are Biden’s health secretary nominee and coronavirus coordinator, respectively.
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