WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden’s choices for his health care team point to a stronger federal role in the nations COVID-19
strategy, restoration of a guiding stress on science and an emphasis on equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments.
With Monday’s announcement of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his health secretary and a half dozen other key appointments, Biden aims to leave behind the personality dramas that sometimes flourished under President Donald Trump. He hopes to return the federal response to a more methodical approach, seeking results by applying scientific knowledge in what he says will be a transparent and disciplined manner.
We are still going to have a federal, state and local partnership, commented Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the nonprofit American Public Health Association. I just think there is going to be better guidance from the federal government and they are going to work more collaboratively with the states.
