Joe Biden's presidential marketing campaign introduced on Wednesday that it had shaped a brand new advisory committee to counsel the marketing campaign on the dangers posed by the brand new coronavirus, simply hours after the World Well being Group declared the outbreak to be a pandemic. 

The Public Well being Advisory Committee will present "science-based, professional recommendation relating to steps the marketing campaign ought to take to attenuate well being dangers for the candidate, employees, and supporters," the marketing campaign mentioned in a press release. 

"The marketing campaign's prime precedence is and can proceed to be the well being and security of the general public," the assertion mentioned. "Members of the committee will present ongoing counsel to the marketing campaign, which is able to in flip proceed to replace the general public relating to operational selections."

The consequences of COVID-19, the illness brought on by coronavirus, is simply beginning to be felt by the main presidential campaigns. Biden and his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders, each canceled rallies in Ohio this week,...