Biden's COVID czar steps down

Ashish Jha, coordinator of the White House COVID-19 Response Team, is stepping down on June 15 after more than a year at the post, the Biden administration confirmed Thursday.

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The general internist physician and academic will return to his job as dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, from which he has been on leave since joining the White House in 2022. …

Always understood to be short term, Jha’s appointment provided time for the White House to find a permanent director for a wider-scoping pandemic preparedness office. However, the administration is still searching for one.

[I think after the last three years, Congress should have much more input on an office of “pandemic preparedness,” especially since all of the experts in two administrations managed to get just about everything wrong in this one. The questions of pandemic preparedness should be managed by Congress, not by executive-branch edicts. — Ed]

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