Ashish Jha Picked as Biden’s New Pandemic Czar

“Jeffrey Zients, an entrepreneur and management consultant who steered President Biden’s coronavirus response through successive pandemic waves and the largest vaccination campaign in American history, plans to leave the White House in April to return to private life,“ the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Zients will be replaced as the White House Covid coordinator by Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and a practicing internist who has urged an aggressive approach to the pandemic in frequent television appearances.”