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Biden’s unorthodox health team

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President-elect Joe Biden’s names his administration’s top health officials. The toll the pandemic has taken on nursing home employees. And an inauguration unlike any other. 

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The pandemic has taken a heavy toll on nursing home workers. “The problem is that there have been a number of nursing home employees who have either quit or fallen ill or died,” says business reporter Will Englund. “And in a business that has a traditional or a chronic problem with short staffing, that's gotten even much worse.”National political reporter Matt Viser on what you need to know about Joe Biden’s inauguration. 

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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:04.0

Hi, good afternoon.

0:06.0

This is Tulu O'Lower-Reniko with the Washington Post.

0:09.0

Hi, this is Amy Britton calling me in the post.

0:11.0

This is Peter J. Listen from the Washington.

0:13.0

This is Post Reports.

0:14.0

I'm Martin Powers.

0:16.0

It's Tuesday, December 8th.

0:21.0

Today, Biden's new health team, burn out for nursing home workers,

0:28.0

and inauguration in a pandemic.

0:35.0

For the past couple of weeks, President-elect Joe Biden has each week been announcing

0:41.0

one component of his administration.

0:46.0

Good afternoon.

0:48.0

The President-elect has made very clear that he regards fighting the coronavirus pandemic,

0:54.0

the most urgent mission of his new administration.

0:58.0

Today, I'm very proud to be announcing our health care and COVID team at a critical time.

1:06.0

My name is Amy Goldstein and I'm the Washington Post National Health Care Policy Writer.

1:12.0

I know that out of our collective pain, we're going to find a collective purpose

1:18.0

to control the pandemic, to save lives, and to heal as a nation.

1:23.0

Today, I'm pleased to announce a team that we're going to do just that.

1:33.0

So before we get into those individuals who are going to be running pandemic response,

1:38.0

could you just talk a little bit more generally about the Department of Health and Human Services,

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