President-elect Joe Biden
Joe BidenTrump grants clemency to over 100 people, including Bannon Scalise bringing Donna Brazile as a guest on Biden’s inauguration Sidney Powell gives up on the Georgia kraken process MORE on Wednesday, allegedly, will ask for the resignation of the US Surgeon General Jerome Adams
Jerome AdamsNebraska Wrong Governor on Immigrant Vaccination State and Federal Authorities Fight Over Vaccine Release and Delay Overnight Health Care: Frustration Increases With Slow Vaccine Release Rate | Surgeon-General tells states not to allow priority guidelines to delay vaccinations | The COVID-19 test used by Congress may give false results, FDA warns MORE shortly after he takes office at noon.
The Washington Post reported that Biden will request Adams to resign as one of his first acts as president; he previously announced in December that Vivek Murthy
Vivek MurthyDemocratic Senator: COVID-19 relief takes priority over COVID-19 post-holiday impeachment trial sets new deadline records Dr. Fauci made the right calls MORE would return to the role under his administration.
Adams’ resignation will represent a break from the Trump administration’s treatment of the coronavirus pandemic and the launch of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Post reported. Murthy was previously fired for President Trump
Donald TrumpLil Wayne gets Trump forgiveness in the 11th hour Trump grants clemency to more than 100 people, including Bannon Trump must forgive Bannon: reports MORE in the spring of 2017.
Biden is expected to appoint an interim general surgeon within hours, according to the Post, although the position does not go to deputy surgeon general Erica Schwartz, who said she will retire after being passed over. A request for comment from Biden’s transition team was not immediately returned.
The president-elect’s efforts to break away from the treatment of his predecessor to the pandemic COVID-19 comes at a time when the United States has reported 400,000 deaths from the virus across the country, and experts have warned that the cases will peak in the coming weeks .
Head of the Biden Disease Control and Prevention Center, Rochelle WalenskyRochelle WalenskyOvernight Health Care: Limited testing capacity as localities struggle with vaccine staff | Health workers refuse vaccine is growing problem | The new director of the CDC expects 500,000 deaths from COVID by mid-February. The new CDC director expects 500,000 coronavirus deaths by mid-February. Gottlieb: Demand could complicate Biden’s 100-day vaccine distribution plan MORE, predicted on Sunday that the US could see another 100,000 deaths before the end of February.
“I think we still have a few dark weeks ahead of us,” she said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program.