FILE PHOTO - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) is joined by Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain (L) in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, U.S. November 13, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Picture
(Reuters) - Ron Klain was once tapped by Democratic President Barack Obama to safeguard the United States from the threat of a lethal virus. As President-elect Joe Biden's chief of staff, he will take on a similar mission.
In 2014, Obama named Klain to serve as the "Ebola Czar" after an outbreak in West Africa that ended up killing thousands around the globe. All in all, only 11 people were treated in the United States for the virus and two died.
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