{"id":29496,"date":"2020-11-25T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29496"},"modified":"2020-11-25T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:19:42","slug":"biden-team-to-begin-getting-covid-briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29496","title":{"rendered":"Biden team to begin getting COVID briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden transition team will begin receiving briefings from federal agencies Wednesday on the COVID-19 response, Biden officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The transition team has requested briefings on the COVID-19 vaccine distribution, Operation Warp Speed, testing and the supply chain for personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are moving forward expeditiously,\u201d said Kate Bedingfield, a spokesperson for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously our teams have had a lot of time to work through the core questions that they need to pose and the pieces of information that they most want to have clear visibility into,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies were not allowed to coordinate with the Biden team until a key Trump official officially approved the transition process this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why it matters:\u00a0<\/em>Biden and his team will now be able to access information from federal agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services on its COVID-19 response thus far, better preparing his administration to take over in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden transition team will begin&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29497,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29496\/revisions\/29497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}