NPR had an interesting story yesterday about the new (as of July) director of the CDC. Some retrospective on the pandemic in North Carolina, especially the disparate impact on nonwhite and poorer communities, and some of her professional background. She ran Medicare and Medicaid in the Obama adminstration
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/23/1195293687/cdc-mandy-cohen-north-carolina-health-inequity-black-communities
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#MandyCohen #CDC #NorthCarolina #pandemic #covid #NPR

We know who the new CDC Director Mandy Cohen is:

🤦Sinister media management consultant

🙅 Doesn't wear a mask

🤦Advocate of managed care to save $ on Medicaid, rationing care.

🙅 Work requirements to get health insurance

🤷 Minimizer "We can't stay locked down forever... the virus is going to move around"

🤷 North Carolina stay at home order only a few wks.

🙅 Economy over lives.

#CDCDirector #MandyCohen #WorseThanRochelle #Minimizer

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4UjXtEmeQPDObtfscF8pyz?si=koMt4kRbQ9aISszsPNSILg

Hey, if Chip Roy (N-AZ) doesn't like her, that's good enough for me! #ChipRoyIsATraitor #CDC #MandyCohen #VoteBlue

Former North Carolina health official Dr. Mandy Cohen is picked to be new CDC director https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/former-north-carolina-health-official-is-picked-to-be-new-cdc-director

You know, if I were trying to telegraph my administration's support for diversity, I might make an effort to avoid nominating two white Jewish women with strong ties to Massachusetts in a row to the same prominent federal position.
There's also something—though admittedly not much—to be said for not giving the antisemitic conspiracy theorists more to work with.
And don't even get me started on the whole glass cliff aspect of this.
#Biden #CDC #RochelleWalensky #MandyCohen #USPol #politics