President Biden is launching a centralized federal strategy for the coronavirus pandemic that the previous administration balked at and left largely to states to figure out.
"The death toll will likely top 500,000 this month," Biden warns as he rolls out his national strategy to tackle the pandemic.
— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) January 21, 2021
Details on what he's signing today -->https://t.co/HlN4vIOdNO
The president said before taking office that he’s “optimistic,” but after only one day on the job, the president’s point man on COVID-19 said the administration inherited no vaccine plan from the Trump team and glaring supply issues.
“What we’re inheriting is so much worse than we could have imagined,” said Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator.
The systems to manufacture, distribute, and track vaccine doses set up by the Trump administration are even more broken than Biden’s COVID team feared. https://t.co/wzkOYVKC16
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 21, 2021
A look at the Biden COVID-19 plan and what the change in Washington’s stance will mean for taming the pandemic in its second year.
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Dr. Mark McClellan, Duke University, founding director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and former Food and Drug Administration commissioner
Alice Miranda Ollstein, POLITICO, health care reporter (@AliceOllstein)
