Biden faces challenges in quickly combating the pandemic
Associated Press— If Joe Biden wins next week’s election, he says he’ll immediately call Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert. That alone would mark a significant shift from President Donald Trump, who has feuded with scientists, struggled to broker a new stimulus deal and reacted to the recent surge in U.S. virus cases by insisting the country is “rounding the turn.” But Biden would still face significant political challenges in combating the worst public health crisis in a century. Biden says he’ll lobby them nonetheless, and, if they refuse, he said Friday that he’ll go around them by contacting “mayors and county executives to get local masking requirements in place nationwide.” Biden has offered a more cohesive plan for other major challenges facing the U.S. He’s proposed, for instance, spending $2 trillion to combat climate change by boosting investment in clean energy and stopping all climate-damaging emissions from the U.S. economy by 2050. “I think we have to make it work,” said Stef Feldman, the Biden campaign’s policy director, who noted that the former vice president has conceded that the task “isn’t going to be easy or happen overnight.” “But it is something that he feels confident that the administration, with leadership that is not waving a white flag like President Trump, can, in partnership with the American people, take control of this virus and get our lives back,” Feldman said. The Biden campaign also stresses that he will make a point of empowering career public health experts and “listening to the science.” Kavita Patel, a physician and health policy expert who worked in Obama’s White House, said that will be instrumental in making the governmental response to the pandemic more effective.
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