In any other transition, you probably wouldn’t hear much about health positions in a newnadministration, but this is not a normal year. The incoming health team will need to deal a crisis like this country has never seen. Now we know some of the people Biden is reportedly naming to key positions. Politico reports:

Transition co-chair and former Obama administration official Jeff Zients is set to serve as the White House’s Covid-19 coordinator and Vivek Murthy, the former U.S. surgeon general under Obama, will return to that role, but with a broader portfolio that will include serving as the top medical expert and public face of the work.

Marcella Nunez-Smith, a co-chair of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board, will also take a key role in the administration’s response, focused on health disparities.

Biden is expected to confirm this news in the coming days, along with other additions to the team.

Also notable today, Dr. Anthony Fauci confirmed he will stay in his role after Joe Biden’s inauguration. CBS News reports:

As a career official, Fauci will remain in his position as director of NIAID, and said that he expected Mr. Biden would want him to continue advising the administration on how to address the coronavirus pandemic.

“I am almost certain that he’s going to want me to do that, because that’s what I do,” Fauci said.