President Biden is launching a centralized federal strategy for the coronavirus pandemic that the previous administration balked at and left largely to states to figure out. The president said before taking office that he’s “optimistic,” but after only one day on the job, the president’s point man on COVID-19 said the administration inherited no vaccine plan from the Trump team and glaring supply issues. Dr. Mark McClellan, Duke University, founding director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and former Food and Drug Administration commissioner