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President-elect Joe Biden has asked for the resignation of Surgeon General Jerome Adams, bringing the tenure of the nation’s top doctor to an abrupt end as Biden looks to reboot the federal government’s pandemic response.
Adams confirmed his plans to step down in a tweet on Wednesday morning, calling it the “honor of my life to serve this Nation.”
“I hope in 2021 and beyond, we can focus more on what unites us, and rise above what divides us,” he wrote in a subsequent Facebook post.
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