But doesn't she need to be licensed to give official medical advice?
All you need to give medical advice is medical knowledge. Most people who have graduated from med school have at least a base of medical knowledge. Regarding a respiratory virus driven pandemic, we should be getting medical advice from specialists in respiratory diseases. Politics doesn’t work that way. Spokesmen are good at speaking, not necessarily expert at subject matter.
Everyone in these press conferences is a politician at some level. They are not putting garden variety respiratory specialists up there to give briefings.
It is what it is.