WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team named a Covid-19 task force co-chaired by Indian-American Vivek Murthy on Monday as the coronavirus swept through the U.S. Surpassing 125,000 daily cases, with the grim prospect of the incoming new administration receiving a national health emergency.
The 13-member task force of two other Indian-Americans: Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon, researcher and public health author, and Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease and global health specialist, will consult with health officials state and local. on how to better prevent the spread of the coronavirus, reopen schools and businesses, and address the racial disparities that have left communities of color more affected than others by the pandemic.
“Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles facing our administration, and science and experts will inform me,” Biden said in announcing the task force. “The advisory board will help shape my approach to managing the increase in reported infections; ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, and distributed efficiently, equitably, and free of charge; and protect populations at risk. ”
Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing in the US and are expected to exceed 10 million infections on Monday. Although death rates have dropped and better treatments are becoming available, including the prospect of an early vaccine, the country has exceeded 1,000 deaths per day for nearly a week and the death toll is expected to rise as the hospital system begins to fill with more serious cases.
The Trump White House simply appears to have given up the fight and will likely deliver a disaster to the incoming administration. The University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Assessment model projects that there will be more than 372,000 deaths from Covid-19, 135,000 more than the current total, if Biden takes office on January 20, 2021.
Biden’s team has pledged, among other things, to increased testing and contact tracing, mandatory masks and more PPE, and additional investments in vaccines and treatments.
Vivek Murthy, 42, became the Obama administration’s youngest surgeon general in 2014 after a year-long battle during which many Republicans and Republicans from the National Rifle Association opposed him over comments he had made. made by stating that gun violence was a threat to public health. He was fired by the incoming Trump administration in 2017.
London-born Murthy, 39, whose parents come from a farming family in the Karnataka village of Halligere, has often invoked her Indian roots for her success in much the same way as Kamala Harris.
” By any reasonable measure, you shouldn’t be standing here. My father is the son of a farmer in rural India. He was supposed to be a farmer, just like me, ” he recalled a group of supporters gathered at a military base in Fort Myer after he was sworn in (in a Bhagavad Gita) as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. , The Chief Doctor of the United States, by then Vice President Joe Biden.
Atul Gawande, born in Brooklyn, whose parents are immigrant doctors who studied medicine in India, has written extensively on public health (he was a staff writer for The New Yorker) and is the author of Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Sciences; Best: Surgeon’s Notes on Performance; and being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end.
The 13-member task force of two other Indian-Americans: Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon, researcher and public health author, and Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease and global health specialist, will consult with health officials state and local. on how to better prevent the spread of the coronavirus, reopen schools and businesses, and address the racial disparities that have left communities of color more affected than others by the pandemic.
“Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles facing our administration, and science and experts will inform me,” Biden said in announcing the task force. “The advisory board will help shape my approach to managing the increase in reported infections; ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, and distributed efficiently, equitably, and free of charge; and protect populations at risk. ”
Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing in the US and are expected to exceed 10 million infections on Monday. Although death rates have dropped and better treatments are becoming available, including the prospect of an early vaccine, the country has exceeded 1,000 deaths per day for nearly a week and the death toll is expected to rise as the hospital system begins to fill with more serious cases.
The Trump White House simply appears to have given up the fight and will likely deliver a disaster to the incoming administration. The University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Assessment model projects that there will be more than 372,000 deaths from Covid-19, 135,000 more than the current total, if Biden takes office on January 20, 2021.
Biden’s team has pledged, among other things, to increased testing and contact tracing, mandatory masks and more PPE, and additional investments in vaccines and treatments.
Vivek Murthy, 42, became the Obama administration’s youngest surgeon general in 2014 after a year-long battle during which many Republicans and Republicans from the National Rifle Association opposed him over comments he had made. made by stating that gun violence was a threat to public health. He was fired by the incoming Trump administration in 2017.
London-born Murthy, 39, whose parents come from a farming family in the Karnataka village of Halligere, has often invoked her Indian roots for her success in much the same way as Kamala Harris.
” By any reasonable measure, you shouldn’t be standing here. My father is the son of a farmer in rural India. He was supposed to be a farmer, just like me, ” he recalled a group of supporters gathered at a military base in Fort Myer after he was sworn in (in a Bhagavad Gita) as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. , The Chief Doctor of the United States, by then Vice President Joe Biden.
Atul Gawande, born in Brooklyn, whose parents are immigrant doctors who studied medicine in India, has written extensively on public health (he was a staff writer for The New Yorker) and is the author of Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Sciences; Best: Surgeon’s Notes on Performance; and being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end.
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