Biden is already being badly outmaneuvered by Trump, who is on his left on several issues already.  Examples:

Trump:  The Federal government is going to pay for coronavirus care for the uninsured.

Biden:  Reopen the exchange so the uninsured can buy insurance with high deductibles to cover their care.

Trump:  We need 2 trillion dollars of infrastructure projects to put unemployed Americans back to work, FDR-style.

Biden:  How are we going to pay for that?

It's looking bad, barring Biden moving way to the left to try to get Warren and Sanders' support.

22 January: Trump says, "We have it totally under control... It's going to be just fine."

30 January: WHO declares a global health emergency.

10 February: Trump says, "I think the virus is going to be... it's going to be fine."

11-12 February: WHO convenes a research forum on COVID-19, attended by more than 400 parties from around the world, in order to share information and experience.

19 February: Trump says, "I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of virus."

26 February: Trump says, "The 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero... that's a pretty good job we've done."

10 March: Trump says, "Just stay calm. It will go away."

11 March: WHO declares a global pandemic, says, "We are deeply concerned...by the alarming levels of inaction". Trump says, "I think we're going to get through it very well."

With hindsight, we might look back and say the WHO could have done things differently... Maybe. What is certain is that Trump repeatedly underplayed the virus when the WHO was issuing strong warnings.

Eric L. - It seems that the warnings of corona were extant before Trump started paying attention. However - and this kills me - I don't know if I can blame him. It seems that in so many disasters - World War II, the Twin Towers, etc. - information and warnings have been there. But so were others about disasters that never occurred. Sometimes it's hard to separate the dross from the gems.

However, so y'all don't think I'm getting sentimental, I STILL blame Trump. Preparation is NECESSARY, and in this case, completely harmless. The President, or HHS (or whichever department is suited) could have put the word out early enough to get hospitals to check their stores; we could have checked the national stores of equipment; the military could have been put on alert of the possibility of a pandemic; and other steps that could have been made to get ready for a very viable disaster, and those steps would have been good maintenance anyhow.

But nothing - NOTHING - must affect Murder's ego. No challenge to the national status - which means nothing to damage his (tarnished) self-image. Nothing can be not-perfect in THIS administration.

For God's sake, we buy life and auto and home insurance - not because we PLAN to have an accident. But because the chances of it happening are too great to ignore completely. But President Murder has an advantage; he can ignore ANYTHING.

I find it helpful to separate these things out into a couple of different columns.  One of the columns - the one that represents true, gross, amoral mismanagement - is one that I call "The Empathy Test" (which I've probably mentioned here before).  That's the massive problem that we as a nation saw looming but chose to ignore because it only affected a subset of the population, generally one that's been dehumanized in public image.  So the AIDS crisis and slavery both fall into the Empathy Test column - problems that were ignored by those in power because the vast majority of Americans couldn't bring themselves to give a shit about it or the people it affected.  The Empathy Test has been given over and over, and it seems like we always fail it and then only take action after thousands or millions of lives have been lost.

I personally think Corona falls into this column, with the tells being Trump trying to brand it as the "Chinese" virus (ie, 'othering' it), and by the depressing statistics that African-American communities appear to have higher death rates proportionally than other ethnicities - in part because the communities are more prone to the diseases of poverty that leaves them more vulnerable to Corona.  The third tell is, of course, the depressing way some seem to be willing to sacrifice people who would be at greater risk for the sake of protecting the economy - which would be all fine and good if that had been presented as an argument and acted upon in the weeks (and MONTHS) of lead time we had to act as a nation, but are the worst of bad-faith positions once the NOW unavoidable scale of the crisis really arrived.