Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 response coordinator is an academic physician who has mocked
early treatment of the virus and has said he considers Anthony Fauci to be a personal role model. Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, is a familiar face to those who get their news about the coronavirus from CNN and other cable and network news shows. Jha said his COVID-19 policies have been “based on science.”