The Biden administration, with hundreds of billions of dollars to spend to end the COVID crisis, has set a series of aggressive bench marks to determine whether the economy has fully recovered, including returning to historically low unemployment and helping more than 1 million Black and Hispanic women return to work within a year.

Biden’s $1.9 trillion challenge: End the coronavirus crisis faster

Chief Medical Advisor to the US President, Anthony Fauci said that the lack of truthfulness from the previous President Donald Trump`s administration pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic "very likely" cost American lives.

Trump administration's lack of honesty in handling COVID-19 'very likely' cost lives: Fauci

US President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders shortly after being sworn on Wednesday, undoing policies put in place by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump.

Joe Biden signs raft of orders, rolls back Trump policies on coronavirus, immigration and more

US President-elect Joe Biden will nominate California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for secretary of health and human services as soon as Monday, a source familiar with the decision said, as he builds up his team to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joe Biden selects Xavier Becerra as health secretary to battle COVID-19