Posted on 11/24/2024 3:01:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
When the next pandemic strikes, Americans will again depend on a cadre of senior health officials to steer the nation’s response and reassure the public. But the team rapidly assembled by President-elect Donald Trump is largely untested, possesses scant infectious-disease expertise and has often questioned vaccines and other interventions overseen by the agencies they have been tapped to lead.
Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon and writer who is Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration, has been among the agency’s most prominent critics, arguing its response to the coronavirus pandemic was heavy-handed and bureaucratic. Dave Weldon, chosen to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a former GOP congressman who pushed debunked claims about vaccines and their safety. Janette Nesheiwat, a family and emergency medicine physician selected to be surgeon general, is best known as a Fox News commentator.
Their boss would be Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump tapped to lead the Department of Health Human Services and who has repeated debunked claims about vaccines.
The emerging team of Trump health leaders have promised to tackle diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses that they say have been generally overlooked. But their predecessors — including some from the first Trump administration — warn that infectious-disease outbreaks are inevitable and undermining vaccine confidence could impede a federal response during an emergency.
“The new administration had better have a strong infectious disease response plan- and had better ensure public health and vaccine confidence stays high,” Jerome Adams, who served as surgeon general during the first Trump administration, wrote Saturday on X. “Or they’ll be distracted with outbreaks for 4 years this time instead of 1.”
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The propaganda lips be a’flappin!
Fowchy, we needs ya!(/S)
There isn’t a very high bar.
They are also probably untested in creating diseases in China!
WaPo gets an “F”.
They cannot help themselves. They screwed the pooch and yet they still think that we will listen to the communist idiots.
Four writers, and none of them got it correct.
And these experienced people performed so well in the last outbreak.
Can’t possibly do worse than the ones that were supposedly ready for it.
They never stop.
So what, the dickweeds at the WaPo are largely untested with minding their own business. They shouldn’t be pimping crap they have got no clue about. Your boy, Jo Pedo’s, clowns didn’t do all that great either. Why don’t you morons grow up and move to Cuba or North Korea? Tell me again about your boy Sammy Brinton. He was largely tested stealing women’s fashions from airport baggage carousels.
While one can accept that Trump’s picks in the area of health related agencies are “untested” in fighting disease outbreaks, they are all very knowledgeable in the things the old FDA, CDC, NIH regimes have done wrong with regard to disease outbreaks and most particularly did wrong with respect to the Covid outbreak. The old regimes were wrong, lying, misguided and comromised by embeded corporate and federal institutional deceitfulness and corruptuion regarding everything they did, suggested and helped demand during the Covid outbreak, from the origins of Covid, to the demand for the necessity of mRNA based vaccines, to the “public health” mandates, orders, rules and regulations.
These people had it RIGHT last time.... way better than the people who were in charge.
Well, Trump's Surgeon General pick is basically Fauci with a great set of tits so there's that.
lol Where’s Falsie?
In general I don’t like Doctors, but I would pick her over Fauci any day.
They're describing Fauci.
Dave Weldon was my primary care physician in Florida after he gave up his House seat. He was/is a good guy.
Are they kidding?
Does Kommy-La have more?
Trump was President for the start of the ‘Pandemic’ of COVID-19.
At least Trump has learned not to trust the “Experts”.
I always look to Ferit Nirappal to get my opinions on everything.
In other words, they are not in the back pocket of Big Pharama!
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