California attorney general Xavier Becerra as health secretary - Joe Biden

President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly picked California attorney general Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act during a leading role to oversee his administration’s coronavirus response.

If confirmed Becerra, 62, is going to be the primary the first to go the Department of Health and Human Services, a $1-trillion-plus agency with 80,000 employees and a portfolio that has drugs and vaccines, leading-edge medical research and insurance programs covering quite 130 million Americans.

Becerra will lead the health agency because it struggles to handle a resurgence of the coronavirus, including record infections and a daily price that has exceeded 2,000 in recent days and prepares a mammoth effort to vaccinate Americans against the virus. quite 282,000 Americans have died from Covid-19.