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President Biden has promised to put science back at the heart of the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet the man he has chosen as his White House coronavirus czar is not a scientist, but rather a management consultant and investor known to former Obama administration staffers as “Mr. Fix It” for his ability to turn around failing government projects.
Jeff Zients will be the coordinator of the president’s COVID-19 task force, a position that will give him oversight of everything being done across the federal government to tackle the virus, including deciding travel restrictions and managing the vaccine supply chain.