Tribune news service
New Delhi, November 8
While a number of Indian Americans, such as Richard Verma, Nisha Biswal, Sonal Shah, and Seema Sadanandan, could be featured in the new Biden administration to be announced around November 26, one Indian American will immediately play a prominent role in President. -Choose the first initiative after defeating Donald Trump.
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is destined to co-lead a 12-member group that will join the battle with the raging Covid epidemic in the US that records more than a lakh of positive cases every day.
The “Covid-19 task force” will also be co-chaired by former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler and Yale University Professor Marcella Nunez-Smith.
Murthy, a registered Democrat, was the Surgeon General of the United States from 2014 to 2017. Biden received reports for months from health experts, including Murthy and Kessler, a former FDA commissioner. Other experts who have briefed Biden include Celine Gounder of New York University and Marcella Nunez-Smith of Yale, according to US media reports.
“On Monday, I will appoint a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advisers to help take the Biden-Harris Covid plan and turn it into an action plan that begins January 20. The plan will be based on fundamental science. ” ‘Biden said in his first president-elect speech Saturday night. Biden’s task force could begin holding public briefings from next week through Opening Day on January 20.
