Biden Team Crafts Vaccine Plan With Eye on Politics of Trump Bid
(Bloomberg) -- Joe Bidens advisers are developing plans to distribute a coronavirus vaccine if he were to win the election as the Democratic nominees campaign monitors the Trump administrations effort to deliver a drug for signs of political interference, according to two Biden advisers.
Bidens health team, many of whom worked in the administration of President Barack Obama, are leveraging decades-long relationships with U.S. government officials to keep tabs on President Donald Trumps initiative to deliver a vaccine in record time, the people said.
The group includes some of the officials who oversaw pandemics and preparedness in the Obama administration, many of whom still have contacts within the U.S. government. Among them are Nicole Lurie, the former assistant secretary for preparedness and response under Obama; Vivek Murthy, the former U.S. surgeon general and David Kessler, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Biden assembled a small advisory group of public health and economic experts to keep him up to date on virus developments and help him craft policy. That group has expanded to dozens as the pandemic persists with the election 49 days away, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the internal workings of the campaign.
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