Biden's Coronavirus Response and Task Force

[Sue (Ayt)]

Biden gave his speech today on his team's plan for handling Covid-19. I heard it on tv news, and cripes, it sounded depressing to me. "Dark Winter" is set to be the theme. The fear factor for the virus is being ramped up.
He also announced his Covid-19 Task Force. (Some of the players we already know.)

Biden and his shadow health panel start plotting pandemic response

A sobering 10-minute speech offered the best glimpse yet at how Biden will guide the country through a historic health crisis.

President-elect Joe Biden gave clear signals on Monday that his administration will take a completely different approach to the coronavirus pandemic — warning that the United States would face a "very dark winter," unveiling a new Covid advisory group stacked with veteran public health experts, lowering expectations for a rapidly available vaccine and making an urgent plea for Americans to cover their faces and slow the soaring rate of infection.
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With U.S. Covid-19 cases about to climb above 10 million and hospitalizations set to reach a record high, Biden took a sober tone, citing projections of a “dark winter” ahead and stressing that if the public does nothing but wait for the vaccine, hundreds of thousands of lives could be lost before the shots become widely available.”

The 10-minute speech offered the best glimpse yet at how Biden will guide the country through a health crisis that's likely to peak as he prepares to assume office. He struck a tone resembling that of a wartime president, speaking of the pandemic’s threat in dire terms and setting public expectations for a drawn-out, months long campaign to crush the outbreak in the U.S.

“An overwhelming majority of the public is behind Biden on mask-wearing and other public health measures. In a Harris-Harvard poll released on Sunday, 80 percent of respondents said they support a national mask mandate, and 65 percent said they were more worried about the country opening up too soon than staying closed too long.
Still, many GOP officials and much of the public is staunchly opposed, and are likely to resist, Biden's calls to mandate masks even as cases climb. Republican groups have begun circulating opposition research about the members of Biden's new coronavirus task force, pointing to former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's past advocacy for gun control and bioethicist Dr. Zeke Emanuel's calls early in the pandemic for the U.S. to take measures as aggressive as the Chinese government to suppress the virus.”

more at link
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...warning-435369

Below is the full list of task force members:

David Kessler, co-chair, former FDA commissioner

Marcella Nunez-Smith, co-chair, Yale associate dean for health equity research

Vivek Murthy, co-chair, former surgeon general

Luciana Borio, former assistant FDA commissioner

Rick Bright, former BARDA director

Zeke Emanuel, former Obama administration health policy adviser

Atul Gawande, Brigham and Women’s hospital professor of surgery

Celine Gounder, NYU Grossman School of Medicine assistant professor

Dr. Julie Morita, former Chicago public health commissioner

Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota

Loyce Pace, executive director of the Global Health Council

Dr. Robert Rodriguez, UCSF emergency medicine professor

Eric Goosby, former Ryan White Care Act director
Biden's CV-19 Task Force