Former Ebola Czar Boosts Biden’s Covid Response Coordination (1)

The former Ebola czar who will be running President-elect Joe Biden’s White House has a knack for getting government agencies to cooperate while digging out from economic crises, colleagues said.

Biden’s decision to tap Ron Klain, a Washington insider who led the nation’s Ebola response in 2014 and 2015, as his chief of staff will be critical as the administration likely will be responsible for rolling out a vaccine nationwide and could be dealing with more surges in Covid-19 cases.

Health officials who worked with Klain as the Ebola czar praised his management from 2014 to 2015 of the largest ...