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Biden Picks Xavier Becerra for Health Team to Handle Virus Response, Obamacare
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Dec 7, 20204:20Now PlayingPresident-elect Joe Biden named California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his Health and Human Services secretary on Monday, and mostly filled out a team that will lead the incoming administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Becerra will also be tasked with expanding the Affordable Care Act, one of Biden’s key health goals beyond curbing the virus outbreak.
Biden will hold an event with some of the team Tuesday in Delaware, though key roles remains unfilled, including commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
His selections so far include Vivek Murthy, who is set to return to the role of surgeon general, a job he held under President Barack Obama, while also helping manage the U.S. government response to the coronavirus.
Murthy will work closely with Jeff Zients, one of Biden’s transition co-chairs, who was named coordinator of the Covid-19 response and counselor to the president. Zients was a top economic adviser to Obama and is credited with reviving the troubled Obamacare enrollment website. Former White House and Pentagon senior adviser Natalie Quillian will serve as Zients’s deputy coordinator.
Rochelle Walensky, the infectious diseases chief at Massachusetts General Hospital, was named director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Biden also named Marcella Nunez-Smith as Covid-19 Equity Task Force chair, a new job that will coordinate the government’s response to the virus. Nunez-Smith is an associate professor at the Yale School of Medicine and co-chair of the Biden transition’s coronavirus advisory board.
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