The Biden Administration will be utterly different from its predecessor in so many ways. We will get the first taste of the scale of change this week, following Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday.
Over the weekend his new chief of staff, Ron Klain, outlined four overlapping crises that the president would tackle right away. These are the Covid-19 pandemic, the resulting economic downturn, the climate crisis and a national reckoning over racial equity in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Huge challenges indeed, and the new administration deserves bipartisan support as he and his colleagues tackle them. As far as the coronavirus pandemic is concerned, several shifts in policy stand out. For a start, the rollout of the vaccines needs both more order and more pace. The Trump Administration essentially washed its hands of the distribution. That was left to the states.
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