Originally posted by the Voice of America. Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America, a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in the public domain. Sea Change Expected in US Government Coronavirus Response Steve Baragona Experts see a sharp change in strategy coming to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic with the election of former Vice President Joe Biden to the presidency. "It's likely to be well organized, it's likely to have clear communication, and it's likely to be based on science. Those are three very important and very refreshing changes," said Thomas Frieden, former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and president and CEO of the health nonprofit Resolve to Save Lives. With nearly 240,000 casualties, the United States has the world's seventh-highest coronavirus death rate adjusted for population, according to [1]Johns Hopkins University. References 1. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality .