'They approached everyone.'
“I don’t know what the plan is going to be,” said Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist who advised Biden’s transition team on Covid. “So many things are going away, and it’s not clear either side — the Republican Party or the Democrats — are really sussing out what the whole situation will require.”
The White House currently is in talks with Tom Inglesby, a former White House Covid team member and current director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Officials also have discussed the possibility of promoting Dawn O’Connell, who runs the preparedness and response office at HHS. In the interim, a few of the remaining Covid team members are expected to transfer to the pandemic preparedness office to function as a skeleton crew. But Covid response coordinator Ashish Jha plans to resign later this month, raising the prospect that the White House could temporarily be without a pandemic czar for the first time since Biden took office.
In addition to supervising the ongoing Covid response, the new office is charged with advising Biden on other pandemic and biological threats and ensuring the administration maintains the supplies and procedures needed to respond to future public health crises. Rather than hurriedly appointing a czar to grapple with emergencies like Ebola, mpox and Covid, the pandemic preparedness director would serve as the de facto coordinator for whatever new threat might emerge.
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