Updated at 2:15 p.m. ET
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday selected Dr. Rochelle Walensky to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when his administration takes office next month.
Walensky teaches at Harvard Medical School and is an infectious disease physician at both Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, according to her biography on the former hospital’s website.
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