Who is Mr. Fix it, the guy Joe Biden designed in front of his strategy ante the COVID-19

Although the power is tentative, imagine what is between the loads of new government of United States there is one less code that the coordinator of the response to the pandemic of COVID-19. More than 2.1 million deaths worldwide for the coronavirus, more than 413,000 its status, which is equivalent to 20 per cent. Con 24.8 million cases, the country is the number one in infections, much distance from the second, India, with a turnover of 11 million.

But it is not the first time that Jeff Zients, the choice of Joe Biden, hache cargo de un barco medio hundido para sacarlo a flote. De hecho su apodo es Mr. Fix-It, o el señor Arregla Todo.

Biden connected to Zients during the gobierno de Barack Obama of who was vice president. In 2009, when a lot of effort was made Obamacare, el salu accessible program, as a matter of fact, there is no political rivalry between them andHealthCare.gov Web Nefficiency the one who pushes on duty is the one the ex-mandate is living with as his school principal. Contracts to Zients for a cargo that was specially created, the director of design; Zients, a male of the elite of the private sector, level Google and Optum experts, part of United Healthcare.

In the White House, Zients work with Aneesh Chopra, Director of Obama Technology, which has been known since 10 years ago. Juntos formaron lo que se conoció com “el SWAT technology team”. During this time the citizens will log in to the site and register.

I am talented management and selection of qualified professionals is what Zients called the response to the pandemic. Because, although Biden has promised that science will be the engine of its response to the coronavirus crisis, Zients is not a scientist. Sera quien escuche el consejo de ellos para tomar decidissings sobre mobility restrictions, use of cash registers and the distribution of the vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2, between others.

The ex functionary of National Economic Council and the Office of Administration and Presidency of Obama here is his guide to Biden’s governing body, ABC News analysis: “Identify the problem, decide on a plan, create a team with the best talent and make sure everyone is responsible for the results”.

The experience of Zients in the governor, by far the side, can not be compared with the situation of a pandemic. “What he has missed in the last years, llamativamente, is a organized response”, Dijo al Financial Times (FT) Tom Frieden, former director of Centro para el Control en la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) during the years of Obama. ‘Hate falta alguien que sea el director de la orchestra. If you do not need to know how to play each instrument, you only need to know what you want to do to get the best of each one ”.

The instruments are complex. Hooi un federal governor in 50 state governors, in addition to a myriad of local organizations, who participated in the traffic against the COVID-19.

The first area of ​​the group especially a load of Zients will be increase the distribution plan of the vaccine to complete with the President’s Promise: immunize a 100 million people in 100 days. At the same time the team will have to find one neutral way of communicating the importance of using tapabocas has a public that divides politically about the asunto.

Although Zients say that their focus is “fundamentally different” from what has been dropped so far, some critics point out that it can be so much that there are many media outlets — for example, distribute all available doses and give priority to the mayors of 65 years– fueron tomadas por el gobierno anterior. Others point out that Zients did not vote for radical actions, because no recommendation that the National Guard be summed up in the camp. There are other signs that a millionaire is committed to the elite education and his experience in public health can hardly surf the surface of a pandemic that, despite decades of disparities, has especially targeted at African Americans and Latinos, poor communities.

And since then, many have criticized the heck out of not being a scientist. “The central functions, which are completed by the White House during the governing body of [Donald] Trump, deben become virtually exclusive to the CDC, without interference ”, said ABC Lawrence Gostin, Professor of Public Health at the University of Georgetown.

Some of the votes were taken in favor of Zients: “His allies say that the proposals that Zients has identified the obstacles in the current display, lo cual es un buen augurio para su capaciad de reforma de resta de la respuesta ”, agregó FT.

“It’s the class of people who are arrogant to flee without making a fuss”, says the ex secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services (HHS), Sylvia M. Burwell, who is working with during the HealthCare.gov crisis.

With 53 years and many good connections in Washington DC, the current ABC, Mr. Fix-It “has the description of publishing its career as one dedicated to observe ejaculation, deeply aware that realizing great ideas is as important as developing them ”. The cadence quoted a statement from the Zients proposal in 2018: “The great ideas change the world, yes, but not for themselves. Nothing is imported unless it executes well, and executes well the things are really difficult”.

In one of its first works, in Bain Consulting, Zients conoció a su esposa, Mary Menell, who belongs to a south african family “is well connected that Nelson Mandela assists in his body”, Illustrated by the chain. Gaining millions of dollars when you start contributing to the top management of the company, Advisory Board and Corporate Executive Board. In 2002 the magazine Fortune calculated his fortune and 149 million dollars, lo cual lo ubicó en el puesto 25 de los estadounidenses más ricos menores de 40 años.

Since leaving the White House, Zients has moved on to different directions: June 1st June Facebook, Executive Director of the Finance Group Cranemere and financier of a cafeteria specialized af bagels very popular in Washington DC, Call your mom (Llama a tu madre). According to his own words, this is why Zients explains the subject to the pilgrims: “It is very pleasant to mount on a star in ascension, being part of something that is really good. Pero son las more difficult situations that can test our character, which we are obliged to see how it works, which is a step forward and which is what is most important ”.

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