Posted on 05/08/2021 12:00:30 PM PDT by lightman
May 7 (UPI) -- A top CDC official who sounded the alarm about the seriousness of COVID-19 early last year is resigning from her post next week.
The Hill, Washington Post and New York Times first reported the resignation of senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official Nancy Messonnier, effective May 14.
Messonnier said she's leaving to become executive director of pandemics and health systems at the Skoll Foundation, a California nonprofit.
"My family and I have determined that now is the best time for me to transition to a new phase of my career," Messonnier said, according to the reports. RELATED CDC: Seniors falling results in 2.2 million ER visits a year
"CDC has provided me many meaningful, rewarding, and challenging opportunities to grow intellectually and mature as a public health leader."
Messonnier attracted attention in early 2020 when she contradicted messaging about the coronavirus from former President Donald Trump's administration. At the time, she warned COVID-19 would lead to "disruption to everyday life" that "might be severe."
When she called on older U.S. residents to avoid crowds and stockpile supplies, she abruptly stopped making public appearances on behalf of the administration. Much of what she predicted eventually happened. RELATED CDC releases COVID-19 guidelines for cruise lines conducting trial voyages
At the CDC, Messonnier was director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, which served as managing influenza and other respiratory threats.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters at the White House Friday that she wished Messonnier "the best in her future endeavors."
"Over this pandemic and through a many-decade career she's made significant contributions, and she leaves behind a strong force of leadership and courage in all that she has done," Walensky said. RELATED CDC predicts spring peak in COVID-19 cases before 'sharp' decline in July
Messonnier started her public health career at the Epidemic Intelligence Service in 1995 and held several leadership positions at the CDC.
"We achieved incredible things, including deploying multiple vaccines in under one year and building the information infrastructure to provide real-time vaccination coverage and vaccine safety data," she said in an email Friday.
Book deal already signed and advance check deposited.
No one READS these books — they are just coffee table virtue signal knickknacks.
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She’s Rod Rosenstein’s sister. Just sayin’
>>>Much of what she predicted eventually happened.
She should place bets in Vegas.
Or buy stocks.
Or get a job writing for the National Enquirer.
Sounds like “plandemics” are something we’ll be seeing more of in the near future.
Another bureaucrat kept too long in their position.
I am in favor of strict term limits, no more than six years, on ALL senior federal agency positions, including those which are merely in positions where they are hired by the agency, not appointed by the elected leaders, nor appointed by those the elected leaders appointed. In essence term limits on the unelected bureaucracy.
Clickbait headline. Her resignation has nothing to do with COVID.
More of the usual garbage blaming Trump for the pandemic.
Perhaps the entire world could have quarantined China in mid-November 2019. This is the only action I can think of that would have entirely avoided the pandemic.
But of course the Demrats would have screamed bloody murder. Their hero, the quack Anthony Fauci was advising against the China travel ban as late as January 24th.
cdc=centers for demonrat control...
Fauci starts at about 22 minutes. worth listening to...
“My family and I have determined that now is the best time for me to transition to a new phase of my career,”
Before she gets Dr. Timothy Cunningham-ed.
Predicting the course of a pandemic based on a solid body of scientific knowledge is a bit different from betting at a casino.
Isn’t she the one whose email to a family member was seen... and then posted online?
She’s rumored to be heading over to the Liggett Group (formerly known as Liggett & Myers) where she will lead a project to produce a non-menthol “menthol” cigarette.
This wasn’t knowledge but policy
Isn’t she related to DOJ Weasel Rosenstein?
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