Biden's chief of staff has battled pandemics before. Here's how he plans to beat this one.
The nation was heading into winter with the threat of a new infectious disease from abroad causing widespread panic. Hospitals lacked proper protective gear and were struggling to contain outbreaks. And Donald Trump was using his Twitter account to attack Democratic officials over their handling of the virus and spread misinformation.
But this was 2014, not 2020. And the virus causing alarm around the globe was Ebola, not the coronavirus.
Six years ago, President Barack Obama and his administration feared the kind of calamitous situation the coronavirus has unfortunately caused. To help ensure that did not happen, Obama tapped a veteran Democratic operative, Ron Klain, to oversee the response to the outbreak in West Africa that had already made its way to the U.S.
Now Klain is on the verge of returning to the White House as chief of staff to President-elect Joe Biden as the country battles a raging pandemic far more deadly and pervasive than Ebola ever became. As one of the key architects of the incoming administration’s Covid-19 plan, Klain’s experience is already shaping how the next administration will respond.
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