President Biden’s Health and Human Services nominee Xavier Becerra said Sunday that the country was experiencing an uncontrolled spread of the virus. “The plane in a nosedive. And we’ve got to pull it up,”
Becerra told CNN’s Dana Bash. “And you’re not going to do that overnight. But we’re going to pull it up. We have to pull it up. Failure is not an option.”
Becerra said leadership on the federal level was necessary to ensure that the vaccine rollout and state efforts to control the virus were effective and handled smoothly.
“But first you have to rescue people, you have to rescue the economy,” he said, adding: “President Biden made it clear: it won’t happen overnight.”
“We can’t just tell the states, here’s some PPE, some masks, here’s some vaccines, now go do it,” the HHS nominee added.
His comments came in response to questions about comments Biden made suggesting that there was little the U.S. could do to blunt the COVID-19 pandemic’s trajectory in the coming months.
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