COVID-19 will be first focus of new Democratic administration, president-elect Joe Biden promises in Delaware victory speech

“Our work begins with getting COVID under control,” Biden told a crowd of several thousand people in Wilmington, Del., on an unseasonably warm November evening.“ We can not repair the economy, restore our vitality, or relish life’s most precious moments — hugging a grandchild, birthdays, weddings, graduations, all the moments that matter most to us — until we get this virus under control.”