Marcella Nunez-Smith, the incoming chair of the Biden administration’s
COVID-19 Equity Task Force, gets her first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Friday. She is working hard to encourage the minority community to step up and get vaccinated.
All this in the midst of growing concerns in the Black community and specifically Back health care professionals not wanting to take the vaccine. The data is showing vaccine numbers are not as hoped for.
Appearing via video link, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to chair his COVID-19 equity task force, speaks during a news conference with Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at the Queen Theater December 08, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
It is the first known contact between the elected members of the outgoing and incoming administrations.
President Donald Trump has not reached out to president-elect Joe Biden or invited him to the White House, and has instead spent the weeks since he lost the November 3 election holed up at the White House, trying to undermine the legitimacy of Mr Biden’s win with baseless claims of mass voter fraud that culminated in last week’s violent storming of the Capitol building.
Mr Pence, who did not speak with Mr Trump for days after the siege, has become an unexpected albeit late defender of Mr Biden’s win.
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