Dr. Robert R. Redfield was appointed as the head of the Centers for Disease Control in March 2018.
Dr. Robert Redfield via CDC website.
Dr. Redfield had to be told by a Member of Congress at an open Hearing in the House nearly two years after he was appointed, that the CDC already has the authority to pay for every single person in America to be tested for the coronavirus.
Previously, Dr. Redfield and the CDC refused to adopt the World Health Organization's test for the coronavirus, opting instead for America's own test. They failed then too.
Dr. Steven Hahn is Dr. Redfield's boss. Dr. Hahn, a radiation oncologist from the University of Texas, was picked to run the Food and Drug Administration in the Federal Government in December 2019.
Photograph of Dr. Stephen Hahn via University of Texas.
Under his leadership, the Food and Drug Administration has required the Centers for Disease Control to re-do tests for the coronavirus Covid-19. This new procedure reportedly has had the effect of throwing sand in the gears, slowing the CDC's efforts to protect the public with testing. Fewer people will test positive if fewer people are tested, even now, of course.
Journalists do not seem to have reported when these people were appointed to their current posts, or how they got appointed, or who appointed them. Given the failures of the FDA and the CDC in the face of the coronavirus, shouldn't we be told?
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