By Gabriel Atumeyi
United States president-elect, Joe Biden, has chosen former surgeon general under Barack Obama’s administration, Vivek Murthy, who was fired soon after President Trump took office as one of the heads of his coronavirus task force team.
Murthy who was the nation’s top doctor when Biden was vice president under President Barack Obama, will be named as one of the co-chairs along with former Food and Drug Administration commissioner David Kessler, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
CNN on Saturday reported that they would be joined by Yale University’s Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, citing sources.
The rest of the taskforce — which Biden referred to in his victory speech on Saturday — will be formally confirmed Monday.