{"id":1385927,"date":"2022-03-17T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385927"},"modified":"2022-03-17T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:37:00","slug":"top-biden-official-jeff-zients-to-step-down-as-admin-shifts-away-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-biden-official-jeff-zients-to-step-down-as-admin-shifts-away-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Biden Official Jeff Zients To Step Down As Admin Shifts Away From COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-biden-official-jeff-zients-to-step-down-as-admin-shifts-away-from-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1385927&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden announced Thursday his administration\u2019s lead on COVID-19, Jeff Zients, will be stepping down in April.<\/p>\n<p>Biden thanked Zients for his work as COVID-19 coordinator, crediting his \u201cdecades of management experience\u201d that aided in planning the delivery of \u201cvaccines, tests, treatment, and masks to hundreds of millions of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeff spent the last 14 months working tirelessly to help combat COVID.\u00a0 He is a man of service and an expert manager. I will miss his counsel and I\u2019m grateful for his service,\u201d Biden said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/03\/17\/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-white-house-covid-19-response-coordinator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zients had been floated as a potential replacement for White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in February, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2022\/02\/01\/the-zients-geist-is-coming-00004352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Klain said \u201cthere was nothing inevitable about getting 215 [million] Americans\u201d fully vaccinated, and that \u201cAmerica owes a debt of gratitude to Jeff Zients.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There was nothing inevitable about getting 215m Americans fully vax\u2019ed, or schools opened, or 2\/3 of seniors boosted, or a robust supply of COVID treatments.<\/p>\n<p>America owes a debt of gratitude to Jeff Zients.<\/p>\n<p>And we are grateful that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashishkjha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ashishkjha<\/a> is taking on this vital role!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHCOS\/status\/1504438486123917316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zients\u2019 deputy Natalie Quillian will also be stepping down in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/17\/politics\/white-house-covid-zients-resign\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN reported<\/a>, citing a White House official.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ashish Jha, the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, will replace Zients, Biden said in his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJha is one of the leading public health experts in America, and a well known figure to many Americans from his wise and calming public presence,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Zients\u2019 departure coincides with the Biden admin shifting its messaging away from the COVID-19 pandemic. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/18\/kamala-harris-communications-director-ashley-etienne-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: <span class=\"il\">Kamala<\/span>\u00a0Harris\u2019 Communications Director\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Resigns<\/span> Amid Poor Polling Numbers, Criticism Of VP)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to the progress we have made this past year, COVID-19 need no longer control our lives,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/state-of-the-union-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> at his State of the Union address March 1. \u201cWe will continue to combat the virus as we do other diseases. And because this is a virus that mutates and spreads, we will stay on guard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/03\/senate-passes-joint-resolution-end-national-covid-19-emergency-roger-marshall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed<\/a> a resolution March 3 to end the national COVID-19 emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden announced Thursday his administration\u2019s lead on COVID-19, Jeff Zients, will be stepping down in April.Biden thanked Zients for his work as COVID-19 coordinator, crediting his \u201cdecades of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}