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AGI – Joe Biden starts over with Anthony Fauci. He asked virologist-turned-world-star Donald Trump (only to criticize and sideline him for excess popularity) to remain in the administration. And not only as head of Niaid (National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases) that Fauci has run since 1984, but also as his personal adviser to the White House on coronavirus.
“I asked him to stay in the same position he had with previous presidents, I asked him to become my chief medical adviser and to be part of the Covid team,” Biden told CNN during the first interview published by Election Day. .
A friendly announcer and family setting, the historic ‘Queen’ Theater, in Wilmington, his hometown, Delaware, that ‘basement’, to use Trump’s words, where he held all the major events of his election campaign and where he is . organizing all the meetings of the transition phase.
“I will make the vaccine, publicly, as soon as Fauci says it is safe,” proclaimed Biden, not to be outdone by his predecessors, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who have declared that they are willing to lead by example. . .
Not even the time to meet with the president-elect team, which Fauci already almost creates a diplomatic incident: he was forced to apologize, after expressing skepticism about the approval procedures of the American vaccine Pfizer in the United Kingdom.
The British health authority Mhra (Regulatory Agency for Medicine and Health) gave the green light on Wednesday and after Fauci’s words issued a statement ensuring that a comprehensive review of the vaccine has been carried out, without shortcuts. So the Chief Virologist corrected the map, at the BBC, so that the message would reach London loud and clear: “I think there has been a misunderstanding and for this I am sorry and I apologize. I trust the scientific community and the authorities of the United Kingdom. I did not want to accuse them of negligence even though it seemed so. The vaccine will be safe, effective, people in the UK will get it and we will follow up soon, “with the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) green light scheduled for mid-December.
But it is one thing to have the vaccine and quite another to administer it. “For this we hope that the Senate will do something, respond to the immediate need for cash,” said Biden, supporting the bipartisan proposal of 900 billion dollars in aid because “it would be a good start.” Certainly “it will take many more” to distribute the vaccine, keep schools open safely and compensate for business losses forced into a temporary closure, Biden explained, with the eagle, the president’s logo, and his side in the background. (but not too much for social distancing) Rep. Kamala Harris.
“In all matters that affect the American people, we are partners,” Harris said, noting that she was involved in all the important decisions. When the interviewer asked her what her portfolio will be, for example if she will lead the coronavirus task force as Vice President Mike Pence does today, it was Biden who spoke: “Whatever I will not be able to follow personally will be entrusted to her.” and in any case “there is not a single decision that he has made that has not been discussed first with Kamala.
In unison, the two commented that Trump is thinking of granting a preventive pardon to him and his clan of family and friends, signaling “a different approach” with the new administration that believes in the independence of justice from politics.
Perhaps thinking of John Kennedy who on January 20, 1961, in his famous inauguration speech, said: “Do not ask yourself what your country can do for you, ask yourself what you can do for your country”, Biden, exactly 60 years later . He will ask all Americans to do their part by wearing masks in the first 100 days of his term. “Masks only for 100 days, not forever. One hundred days and I’m sure there will be a significant drop in infections. ” One hundred days in the footsteps of Kennedy, but especially Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who took office at the time of the great depression. “Because the current circumstances, with the pandemic – he observes – are not very different from what happened in 1932.”
More than 276,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the United States, and yesterday there was a new record of hospitalizations, more than 100,000. “National standards are needed to combat the virus,” the same for all states, such as the order to wear masks in federal offices and in transportation that Biden will sign as soon as he takes office.
Trump and the Grand Old Party refuse to acknowledge the Democrat’s victory and have raised a record $ 207.5 million since Election Day to fund legal appeals against suspected fraud. However, “there have been several elected Republicans who have called me, in a personal capacity, to congratulate me,” reveals Biden. “I understand your position and your reluctance until the game is closed with the vote of the constituency.”
Donald could even reject the inauguration of the successor. “It would not be a personal discourtesy to me” concludes the former vice president “but to the country” which would need “a peaceful transfer of power” after all this chaos.
