President-elect Joe Biden announced Sunday that his COVID-19 "transition advisory board" would be led by former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and Dr. David Kessler, a former FDA commissioner. He will meet with the new task force on Monday.
The other dozen high-profile doctors on the task force, Politico reports, include Atul Gawande, a former Health and Humans Services official and New Yorker writer; Rick Bright, the vaccine expert who testified against President Trump after being ousted as head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; University of Minnesota infectious disease specialist Michael Osterholm; former FDA chief scientist and Trump National Security Council member Luciana Borio; Zeke Emanuel; Yale's Marcella Nunez-Smith, NYU's Celine Grounder; Eric Goosby and Robert Rodriguez at UC San Francisco; Julie Morita of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and Loyce Pace of the Global Health Council.
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