Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming U.S. president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging coronavirus pandemic.For now, it’s a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid.
In the week since he defeated President Donald Trump, Biden has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging Americans to wear a mask and view the coronavirus as a threat that has no regard for political ideology.
Trump vows against U.S. coronavirus lockdown in 1st speech since election defeat But the debate has been livelier among members of the coronavirus advisory board Biden announced this week.