Rebuilding America's coronavirus response from amidst the wreckage of the Donald Trump administration's slash and burn strategy over the last nine months is right up there on US President-elect Joe Biden and deputy Kamala Harris' to-do list.

On the first workday after their victory lap in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden and Harris are tipped to begin Monday by naming a Covid Task Force, co-chaired by former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler and Yale professor Marcella Nunez-Smith.