Grading Biden's first week: Public health experts give new president an 'A' for COVID-19 response

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Experts who spoke to Salon gave Biden high marks in his response to COVID-19

By Matthew Rozsa
January 27, 2021

Salon reached out to public health experts regarding their assessments of President Joe Biden's early performance fighting the COVID-19 pandemic... and graded him with an A.

"I would give him a solid A," Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor and professor of medicine at the University of California–San Francisco, told Salon by email. "He is doing great."

Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, expressed a similar view, writing to Salon that "he gets an A+ from me so far for his first week of office."

Both doctors told Salon that they valued Biden's determination to use medical science as the basis for shaping public policy, something that his predecessor Donald Trump repeatedly refused to do. They were not alone in expressing this sentiment.

"The single most important policy that affects all the multiple components of Biden's coordinated national pandemic strategy is a commitment to objective, data-driven scientific evidence, public health recommendations and full transparency with the American people," Dr. Russell Medford, Chairman of the Center for Global Health Innovation and Global Health Crisis Coordination Center, wrote to Salon. "This is a clear break from the past and the positive impact this is having on the morale and by extension the operational effectiveness of the scientific, medical and public health communities in our fight against COVID-19 should not be underestimated."

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https://www.salon.com/2021/01/27/public-health-experts-say-biden-gets-an-a-in-covid-19-response/