President-elect Biden gets task force virus briefing

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were being briefed virtually on the coronavirus pandemic by a task force of experts their transition team announced Monday.

The Democratic president-elect and vice president-elect sat at separate, individual socially distanced tables and took notes as the members introduced themselves on Monday.

Biden is also planning to give a speech on his planned response to the pandemic. Then Biden and Harris will hold hours of internal meetings about transitioning to the White House in January.

The task force briefing was at the Queen, a theater in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, where Biden’s campaign built a studio and other communications infrastructure and has spent months organizing virtual meetings and speeches.