Epidemic experts and Democratic politicians fault coordination of the response to the coronavirus outbreak and say what's needed is a czar. The White House disagrees.
Some experts question whether Azar has sufficient clout to coordinate a government-wide response to the outbreak.
It's been done before. In October 2014, during an epidemic in West Africa of the deadly Ebola virus, President ObamaRon Klain — who was previously chief of staff to Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden — to be the White House's Ebola czar. But the Trump administration appears unlikely to heed calls for new leadership in its coronavirus response effort. On Wednesday, the Trump administration vehemently denied a"This is not true!" deputy White House press secretary Judd Deere
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