The White House Coronavirus Task Force was established on January 29, 2020, with Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar as its chair. On February 26, U.S. vice president Mike Pence was named to chair the task force, and Deborah Birx was named the response coordinator. The task force reviews all coronavirus-related actions by federal agencies, and has overruled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention several times.
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The White House Coronavirus Task Force was established on January 29, 2020, with Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar as its chair. On February 26, U.S. vice president Mike Pence was named to chair the task force, and Deborah Birx was named the response coordinator. The task force reviews all coronavirus-related actions by federal agencies, and has overruled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention several times. The first known case in the United States of COVID-19 was confirmed in the state of Washington on January 20,2020, in a 35-year-old man who had returned from Wuhan, China on January 15.
On March 16, the White House began holding daily press briefings, but by late April discussed reducing the frequency of these briefings. As the US entered a new phase of re-opening businesses and getting back to work, Pence said that no further press briefings had been scheduled. On May 5, Pence announced that the task Force would refocus on returning the nation to normal activity; the next day, President Donald Trump said that the Task Force would continue indefinitely.
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