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09 November 2020
"It doesn't matter who you voted for, regardless of your political color, the goal is to save lives and if wearing a mask can do it, do it because it affects all American citizens. A mask is a way of unifying the country."
Today's is Joe Biden's first speech on the Covid emergency in the US as president-elect.
The management of the pandemic was one of the central themes of his election campaign, it is the first major watershed between him and Donald Trump.
In the morning, there was the announcement of the appointment of a new task force to fight the epidemic, which "claims nearly a thousand American lives a day and has killed nearly 240,000 people so far. But projections indicate that we could lose. another 200,000 lives in the next few months before the vaccine is available. America still faces a dark winter, "Biden said during a briefing, after" the meeting with the Covid-19 Council on the status of the pandemic and on how to move forward ".
The task force, "which will provide an action plan against the pandemic", will be made up of 13 members, including the Italian-American Luciana Borio, a biodefence expert who has worked in the FDA and the National Security Council.
And again in the morning, here is the announcement of Pfizer, which together with BioNtech has developed a "90% effective vaccine".
The US company is preparing to apply for emergency authorization for its vaccine to the Food and Drug Administration.
"Excellent news," Biden says.
But "the approval process of the Covid vaccine must be guided by science so that the public has confidence that it is safe and effective" he stresses, confirming that "as soon as we have it we will distribute it as quickly and fairly as possible and for free".
A Pulitzer's Pen
Behind
Biden
's Eloquence Behind the eloquence of some of Joe Biden's important speeches, including his Saturday night win in Wilmington, is the pen of Jon Meacham, historian of presidents and Pulitzer Prize winner who could play in the White House of the Democratic president-elect a role similar to that of Arthur Schlesinger in the days of John Kennedy.
According to sources cited by the New York Times, Meacham has helped Biden in many speeches while not being his official speech writer.
Steps such as those on the mission "to rebuild the soul of America, rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class, and make America respected in the world again" bear traces of the historian's 2018 book, 'The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels', the latter quote from Abraham Lincoln incorporated in Wilmington's speech.
Biden's official speechwriter is Mike Donilon, brother of both Tom Donilon who was Barack Obama's national security advisor and Terry Donilon, spokesman for Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley.
Still according to the New York Times, Meacham's role would have been behind the scenes, sending drafts and offering inputs and variations: there would have been his pen for example in the Gettysburg speech in October and in the one at the Democratic Convention in August.
Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Andrew Jackson, Meacham voted for presidents of both parties, was the official biographer of Republican George HW Bush and spoke at First Lady Barbara's funeral, but officially endorsed Biden in an op-ed in the Washington Post and spoke at the convention.
"Recording history doesn't mean you have to keep out of it," he said last summer, letting it be known that he's been friends with Biden for a long time.