Joe Biden
will receive a briefing from his public health advisors today, before
delivering a speech on limiting the spread of coronavirus.
Meanwhile,
Donald Trump continues to raise baseless concerns about the legitimacy of the
presidential election, without providing any evidence of widespread fraud.
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Here’s a full list of the 12 members making up Joe
Biden’s new transition Covid board:
Dr David
Kessler, co-chair. Professor of paediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics
at the University of California, San Francisco. He was US Food and Drug
Administration commissioner from 1990 to 1997.
Dr Vivek
Murthy, co-chair. US surgeon general from 2014-17, who commanded the public
health force that dealt with the Ebola, Zika and Flint water crises.
Dr Marcella
Nunez-Smith, co-chair. Associate professor of internal medicine, public health
and management at Yale University and associate dean for health equity research
at Yale’s medical school, specialising in health care for marginalised
populations.
Dr Rick
Bright. Immunologist, virologist. He was ousted as head of the Biomedical
Advanced Research and Development Authority after criticising the federal
government’s response to the coronavirus under Donald Trump. Bright filed a
whistleblower complaint alleging he was reassigned to a lesser job because he
resisted political pressure to allow widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a
malaria drug Trump pushed as a Covid-19 treatment.
Dr Luciana
Borio. Vice-president of technical staff at the In-Q-Tel strategic investment
firm who until last year was a biodefense specialist on the Nnational security
council.
Dr Ezekiel
Emanuel. Oncologist and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health
Policy at the University of Pennsylvania who since 1997 has served as chair of
the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes
of Health.
Dr Atul
Gawande. Professor of surgery at Brigham and Women’s hospital and at Harvard
Medical School. Served as a senior adviser in the Department of Health and
Human Services in the Clinton administration.
Dr Celine
Gounder. Clinical assistant professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine
who served as assistant commissioner and director of the Bureau of Tuberculosis
Control at New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Dr Julie
Morita. Executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation who
helped lead Chicago’s Department of Public Health for nearly 20 years.
Dr Michael
Osterholm. Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at
the University of Minnesota, former science envoy for health security for the
State Department.
Ms Loyce
Pace. Executive director and president of the Global Health Council, who
previously served in leadership positions at the American Cancer Society.
Dr Robert
Rodriguez. Professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San
Francisco, School of Medicine.
Dr Eric
Goosby. Infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at the University
of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine who during the Clinton
administration was the founding director of the largest federally funded
HIV/Aids program.
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