The team will be tasked with leading the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 284,000 people as of today and closed businesses and schools across the country.Here’s who Biden is nominating and appointing: 

• Xavier Becerra, California's attorney general, as his nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services. Becerra would be the first Latino to lead HHS if confirmed by the United States Senate.
• Dr. Vivek Murthy, who was US surgeon general in the Obama administration, as his nominee for surgeon general. Murthy will also require Senate confirmation.
• Dr. Anthony Fauci will serve as chief medical adviser to the President on coronavirus and will also continue in his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 
• Jeff Zients, Biden transition co-chair and former Obama administration official, will serve as coordinator of the Covid-19 response and counselor to the President.
• Natalie Quillian, another Obama administration veteran, will serve as deputy coordinator of the Covid-19 response. 
• Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the chief of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital, as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a co-chair of Biden's transition team, as the chair of his Covid-19 equity task force.