Biden Covid Czar Could Define Early Months of His Presidency

  • Zients built go-to-guy reputation fixing the Obamacare website
  • Quick steps now being taken to broaden vaccine distributions
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Two weeks after Joe Biden became president, his administration announced its biggest breakthrough yet in distributing Covid-19 vaccines. But Biden didn’t share the good news himself.

Instead, the Tuesday briefing came from a 54-year-old former business executive and Biden ally named Jeff Zients, who is little known to most Americans.