https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/20/ramped-up-testing-and-daily-briefings-inside-bidens-plan-to-take-over-the-governments-tumultuous-covid-19-response/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=09078b524f-MR_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-09078b524f-149692869

Inside Biden’s plan to take over a tumultuous Covid-19 response

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If Joe Biden — who will accept the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination tonight — wins in November, he'll become the first president to inherit a pandemic. Biden has made it clear that his approach will mark a dramatic shift to the current administration's response. In a new special report, STAT's Lev Facher lays out what those plans might look like, including a dramatic ramp-up of testing efforts and daily briefings led by scientists and public health experts. “A really great thing about working with this campaign, from my perspective, is that it’s really been the A-team,” Nicole Lurie, a pandemic response expert in the Obama administration, tells Lev. But the campaign's advisers also acknowledge that the crisis won't easily be brought in check, no matter who is in charge. Read more here.