Some version of this patchwork of localized measures is likely to stay in place after Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20. Dr. Vivek Murthy, a former U.S. surgeon general now leading Biden's coronavirus advisory board, told ABC's "Good Morning America." "Public health principles don't change from one month to another or from one administration to another," he said in an interview. Trump, who recovered from his own bout with COVID-19 after being hospitalized in October, has disdained the wearing of face masks and other containment measures advocated by public health experts. Dr Robert Kim-Farley, an epidemiology professor at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, attributed some of the surges to recent Halloween celebrations.
