Dec 2020. US Presidential Transition

Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle.The government is shipping out laptops so staffers can work from home.US President-elect Joe Biden, surrounded by just a handful of aides in Delaware, is using Zoom to oversee his plans to assume power.But Biden soon will be entering a no-Zoom zone at the White House – just one sign of the challenges his new administration will face when it moves to Washington in the midst of a pandemic.After months of making a virtue of the cautious approach his campaign and transition team have taken towards COVID-19, Biden’s prudence will be tested by technology and tradition when he arrives on January 20.