NEW - Members of the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Task Force

[Roland99]

New this morning: @JoeBiden's full COVID-19 pandemic board is unveiled:

CO-CHAIRS
Dr. David Kessler
Dr. Vivek Murthy
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith

OTHER MEMBERS:
Dr. Luciana Borio
Dr. Rick Bright
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
Dr. Atul Gawande
Dr. Celine Gounder
Dr. Julie Morita
Dr. Michael Osterholm
Ms. Loyce Pace
Dr. Robert Rodriguez
Dr. Eric Goosby

@JoeBiden
on the panel: "Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles our administration will face, and I will be informed by science and by experts."

Link to tweet

[triron]

1. Wasting no time.

[Happy Hoosier]

2. Excellent!

Many of those folks have been interviewed on MSNBC and they are serious, accomplished physicians.

[SheltieLover]

3. But, but, but

They are all scientists! Doctors! Likely REAL doctors!

[Botany]

5. What a bunch of slackers! Kesseler got his J.D. from the U. of Chicago, his M.D. was from Harvard..

.... residency was @ John Hopkins. Show off.

Dr Vivek Murthy...
Murthy completed his Internal Medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts where he also led and managed medical care teams as a faculty .

Dr. David S Kessler...
Kessler studied medicine at Harvard University, graduating with an M.D. degree in 1979. While at Harvard, Kessler obtained a J.D. degree in 1977 from the University of Chicago Law School.[1] While serving his residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, he worked as a consultant to Republican senator Orrin Hatch from Utah, particularly on issues relating to the safety of food additives, and on the regulation of cigarettes and tobacco.

Marcella Nunez-Smith...
Nunez-Smith obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Anthropology and Psychology from Swarthmore College in 1996. She attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College, graduating in 2001. Nunez-Smith was a resident in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She completed her Master of Health Science at Yale University in 2006.

Ezekiel Emanuel...
Emanuel received his M.Sc. from Exeter College, Oxford in Biochemistry. He simultaneously studied for an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Harvard University, receiving the degrees in 1988 and 1989, respectively.He was a member of the first cohort of Faculty Fellows at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard from 1987–88. Emanuel completed an internship and residency at Beth Israel Hospital in internal medicine. Subsequently, he undertook fellowships in medicine and medical oncology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and is a breast oncologist.

[SheltieLover]

6. Wow! That is impressive!!!

I'm so proud of Joe & Kamala!!!

Ty for sharing!

[Botany]

4. Joe Biden, "Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles ....

... our administration will face, and I will be informed by science and by experts."