Even if he steps up with a good Federal plan coordinating efforts among the States, there's no making individuals cooperate and that's where our biggest weakness is.
That's the thing.
You have one chance to initiate a collective think on people.
Once people's thinking is set, it is hard to change.
I think of Donald Trump as being two seperate people.
1. President Trump - leader of USA, leader of the government of USA.
2. Donald Trump - leader of the resistance of the government of USA.
The official corona virus response from the USA government (lead by President Trump) and the Coronavirus taskforce (Lead by Pence, who was appointed by President Trump) was that this was a dangerous pandemic and that people should social distance and wear masks.
Donald Trump (leader of the resistance) however, stated that he wouldn't be wearing a mask, that the corona virus was just a flu and that the pandemic was a Democratic hoax. Calling for Schools to open and for people in democratic run states to liberate themselves from social distancing constraints.
Trump's support base take the lead from Donald Trump (leader of the resistance) and pretty much ignore (but never criticise) President Trump. Any criticism of President Trump is evidence of political games and lies by never Trumpers and radical socialist lefties.
Donald Trump supporters now are fixed on the belief that the coronavirus is no deadlier than the flu, only kills old people who have pre-existing conditions and would die anyway, that coronavirus deaths are grossly overstated and that vulnerable should protect themselves and others should have the right to go on with life as normal, as we tend to do every flu season.
IF Biden becomes president, there will still be Donald Trump (leader of the resistance) and there will still be Trump supporters who will continue to ignore the pandemic and proudly show people that they are expressing their freedoms as an "American".
The thing about a global pandemic is that in non authoritarian countries you need to get the population on board. You cannot as a prime minister or president, do it alone. The whole country needs to act together as a team to combat the pandemic. Donald Trump's downplaying of the pandemic early on (and on going) has had a huge impact in destroying USA's ability to beat this. And it will be very difficult for a president Biden to turn this around.