Biden’s Vaccination Chief Takes On 100-Million-Dose Mission
- Bechara Choucair will pick up immunization campaign midstream
- Former Chicago health commissioner is known for innovation
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U.S. Covid-19 cases and deaths are setting records. The vaccination effort is off to a rocky start. Amid these dark days, President-elect Joe Biden has set an ambitious goal of administering 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office, even as he acknowledges this will be “one of the hardest and most costly operational challenges in our nation’s history.”
Leading this effort, one of the toughest jobs in Washington, will be Bechara Choucair, a 47-year-old physician and former commissioner of Chicago’s health department. As the incoming administration’s vaccinations coordinator, he will be in charge of roughly tripling the pace of daily shots to date to meet Biden’s immunization goal.