Biden to tap FEMA, CDC officials to head White House response to monkeypox outbreak
CBSN
Washington — President Joe Biden is set to name top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as the White House coordinators to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak.
The White House said Mr. Biden will announce Tuesday that he has tapped Robert Fenton, who helped lead FEMA's mass vaccination effort against COVID-19 as the agency's acting administrator when Mr. Biden first took office, as the White House coordinator. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis of the CDC will be named his deputy. Daskalakis, the director of the agency's HIV prevention division and a national expert on issues affecting the LGBTQ community, previously helped lead New York City's COVID-19 response.
The White House said the pair would coordinate "strategy and operations to combat the current monkeypox outbreak, including equitably increasing the availability of tests, vaccinations and treatments."
