White House Coronavirus Task Force facts for kids

U.S. President Donald Trump and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force brief the media on March 16, 2020.

The White House Coronavirus Task Force was a United States Department of State task force that focuses on the spread and limiting of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The task force was created on January 29, 2020.

On February 26, 2020, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was named to chair the task force, and Deborah Birx was named the response coordinator. Other members have been added since the initial appointments.

Members

Member		Role	Appointment
	Mike Pence	Vice President of the United States Chair of White House Coronavirus Task Force	February 26, 2020
	Deborah Birx	United States Global AIDS Coordinator White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator	February 26, 2020
	Jerome Adams	Surgeon General of the United States	February 26, 2020
	Alex Azar	United States Secretary of Health and Human Services	January 29, 2020
	Stephen Biegun	United States Deputy Secretary of State	January 29, 2020
	Robert Blair	Senior Advisor to the White House Chief of Staff	January 29, 2020
	Ben Carson	United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	March 1, 2020
	Francis Collins	Director of the National Institutes of Health	May 15, 2020
	Ken Cuccinelli	Acting United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security	January 29, 2020
	Kelvin Droegemeier	Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy	March 1, 2020
	Thomas J. Engels	Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration	May 15, 2020
	Anthony Fauci	Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases	January 29, 2020
	Joe Grogan	Director of the Domestic Policy Council	January 29, 2020
	Stephen Hahn	Commissioner of Food and Drugs	March 1, 2020
	Derek Kan	Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget	January 29, 2020
	Larry Kudlow	Director of the National Economic Council	February 26, 2020
	Chris Liddell	White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Coordination	January 29, 2020
	Peter Marks	Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research	May 15, 2020
	Steven Mnuchin	United States Secretary of the Treasury	February 26, 2020
	Robert O'Brien	National Security Advisor	January 29, 2020
	Sonny Perdue	United States Secretary of Agriculture	May 15, 2020
	Matthew Pottinger	Deputy National Security Advisor	January 29, 2020
	Robert R. Redfield	Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	January 29, 2020
	Eugene Scalia	United States Secretary of Labor	May 15, 2020
	Joel Szabat	Acting Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy	January 29, 2020
	Seema Verma	Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	March 2, 2020
	Robert Wilkie	United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs	March 2, 2020

Images for kids

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  A meeting of the White House Coronavirus Task Force

See also

In Spanish: Comisión Especial de la Casa Blanca sobre el Coronavirus para niños