President-elect Joe Biden will name former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and former FDA Commissioner Dr. David Kessler, two members of the task force who have been advising his campaign on the pandemic, to the transitional coronavirus work group, Boston.com reports.
Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield made the announcement during a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The appointments mark a different approach to addressing the virus by the incoming administration, contrasting to the Trump administration’s reliance on politicians, financial experts and Dr. Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no public health or virology experience from the conservative Hoover Institute and Fox “News.”