Meet Jerome Adams, the US surgeon general on the coronavirus task force who was the health commissioner of Indiana when the MERS virus hit in 2014 and has experience containing HIV outbreaks with Mike Pence
Apr 8, 2020, 03:45 IST
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- Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned the country that this week is predicted to be the worst of the pandemic so far, comparing it as a moment in history to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
- Adams joined the Coronavirus Task Force in March 2020 and has since received praise from President Donald Trump for publicly backing his claims related to the coronavirus pandemic.
- Aside from telling the country about health issues, surgeon generals run the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which is a group of uniformed health officers that respond to medical emergencies in the US and abroad.
- Surgeon generals don't typically attract as much attention as Adams has.
- Adams began serving as a US surgeon general in 2017 and was focused on the opioid epidemic. Before that, he served as state health commissioner of Indiana alongside the then-governor of Indiana, Mike Pence.
- During his time as a health commissioner from 2014 to 2017, Adams had a heavy hand in containing HIV and MERS virus outbreaks.
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