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“We really would like to see him bring a few more people with some on-the-ground experience onto his team,” Dr. Plescia said. “One of the things about a federal jobs corps is, how do those people interface with the state public health departments? You need to really think through that.”

Mr. Biden’s bid to improve public health infrastructure recalls the approach that he and President Barack Obama took with the recession-ravaged economy they inherited in 2009, when Mr. Biden was the newly inaugurated vice president. Rahm Emanuel, Mr. Obama’s chief of staff at the time, said then that a serious crisis should never “go to waste” because it might provide “an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”

In an interview on Friday, Mr. Emanuel, who went on to serve two terms as the mayor of Chicago, praised Mr. Biden for his plan to invest in such clinics — also known as federally qualified health centers, or F.Q.H.C.s.

“The F.Q.H.C. is singularly the best preventive health care for hard to reach communities,” Mr. Emanuel said, adding, that “what’s great about this investment that the president-elect is making is it is laying down a foundation” for a strong public health response to future crises.

Mr. Biden has long pledged to wage a far more aggressive federal response than Mr. Trump’s leave-it-to-the-states approach.

Also on Friday, Mr. Biden’s team announced that it intended to phase out Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s fast-track vaccine initiative. Dr. David A. Kessler, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration who has been advising Mr. Biden on the pandemic, will lead the new administration’s effort to accelerate the development and manufacture of Covid-19 vaccines.

“OWS is the Trump team’s name for their program,” Jennifer Psaki, Mr. Biden’s spokeswoman, wrote on Twitter, using the program’s initials. “We are phasing in a new structure, which will have a different name than OWS.”