US President-elect Joe Biden announced his advisory board on confronting the novel coronavirus, whose members are expected to form a copy of President Donald Trump's task force, once Biden takes office in January.
But Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which enjoys great confidence in the medical and popular circles in the United States, was not included in the list of the new council, prompting many to question the reason, especially after Biden hinted that he would re-appoint Fauci if Trump expelled him from his role in facing the pandemic.
Democratic strategic analyst Jessica Ehlrich said in an interview with Sky News Arabia that since Fauci is currently working on Trump's team, it would be "inappropriate" for Biden to appoint him to his advisory board during this stage.
Although the 79-year-old director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been subjected to death threats against him and his wife and children, Fauci says he has no plans to retire, but rather intends to be Joe Biden, the seventh president who works with him.
Ehlrich assured that "Dr. Fauci will be ready to work immediately with the president-elect's team to combat the virus, after the end of the transition phase in Washington," adding that Fauci, "with his long experience in fighting epidemics, and his work with several previous departments, his contribution will be very important. During the Biden era. "
Fauci did not speak
Dr. Fauci, who has known Biden since he was vice president, as well as during his four decades in the Senate, has not revealed whether he has been in contact with the 77-year-old president-elect, and said he prefers not to talk about it, describing Biden's work team to confront Covid-19 as "full of qualified people."
Democratic strategic analyst, Jessica Ehlrich expressed her confidence that "the Biden team, with its experience in combating previous epidemics such as Ebola, in addition to the encouraging news about the approaching vaccines against the Corona virus, will be able to control Covid-19 during the next year, through Taking preventive measures, such as social distancing and stressing the importance of wearing protective masks.
"The Biden administration will succeed in providing a new stimulus package for American citizens and business owners, which will have a significant impact on the recovery of the US economy," Ehlrich expected, in her interview with Sky News Arabia.
The Biden team's advisory board, announced on Monday, consists of 13 experts, led by former FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler, former general surgeon Vivek Murthy, and physician and academic Marcella Nunez-Smith.
The coronavirus was one of the main factors that pushed millions of Americans to vote for Biden in the elections, according to a poll conducted by the "Associated Press," after they saw that the Donald Trump administration was not successful in this file.
The United States is the country most affected in the world by the coronavirus, and on Wednesday it continued to record huge increases in infections, with the worsening outbreak in the northeast of the country, in addition to the pressures of the pandemic in the Midwest.
On Wednesday, a Reuters count showed that the United States recorded 142,279 new cases of Covid-19 disease, the highest level ever for the second day in a row, and more than 100,000 injuries for the eighth consecutive day, and the number of deaths increased to 1,464.
The United States has recorded a total of about 10.4 million coronavirus infections and 241,809 deaths.
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