The Trump administration has not cooperated with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, and top Biden officials say the incoming president is limited in what he can do before his team takes the reins. Still, Biden’s coronavirus advisory board co-chair Vivek Murthy says they’re doing everything they can to ensure plans are ready to go on Inauguration Day — including stronger mask requirements.
Biden has already called for implementing mask mandates nationwide. Where mandates don’t exist, Biden will make direct pleas to governors and mayors to put them in place, Murthy said in an interview with NPR’s Weekend Edition.
“The worse this pandemic gets, there are more leaders, elected leaders, who are coming around to the fact that as unpalatable as these mandates might be, they are important and they actually work,” Murthy said.
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