“Die verkose president Joe Biden beplan om Rochelle Walensky te tik, die hoof van aansteeklike siektes by die Massachusetts General Hospital, as sy inkomende direkteur van die Sentrums vir Siektebeheer en -voorkoming, Politico and Reuters reported on Sunday evening. Walensky, also a professor of medicine at Harvard, will replace Dr. Robert Redfield, who was appointed in 2018 and has been one of President Donald Trump’s main advisers during the coronavirus pandemic. The role is sure to be one of the most essential in Biden’s incoming administration as the nation reels from the threat of COVID-19. Meer as 281,000 people in the United States have died from the virus and the country has shattered records for rates of daily infections, daily fatalities and hospitalizations this month in what officials have declared the worst phase of the pandemic thus far. Several vaccine candidates have shown promising results and could soon be approved for widespread use, but healthcare leaders have warned the U.S. should prepare for a dark winter. The CDC has issued more dire public health guidelines in recent weeks, including urging all Americans to adopt “universal mask use” indoors anywhere except at home. Biden has been working quickly to assemble his team of health officials before he assumes office on Jan. 20. Vroeër hierdie maand, the president-elect said he had asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, die land se voorste kenner van aansteeklike siektes, to serve as his chief medical adviser as he has done for six previous administrations. Fauci said he agreed “right on the spot.” “I asked him to stay on the exact same role he’s had for the past several presidents, and I asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well, and be part of the COVID team,” Biden told CNN on Thursday.
