Biden offers COVID template for world leadership: The Note

President Joe Biden's emphasis on science resonates beyond the pandemic and into other areas of public health and in climate change.

The TAKE with Rick Klein If the best way to measure summits is in terms of "deliverables," this is some delivery at the outset. President Joe Biden is promising 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to distribute around the world, announced as he began a series of high-profile summits in Europe. The goal, according to national security adviser Jake Sullivan, is to make the United States "the arsenal of vaccines," like the nation was "the arsenal of democracy during World War II." The comparison is telling -- and speaks to the outsized goals and expectations of Biden's first foreign trip as president. Biden has cast conquering COVID as the defining challenge of his time in office, and he's offering American efforts as something of a template for his vision of the nation's role in the world.