{"id":2521,"date":"2023-06-02T00:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/06\/02\/biden-taps-former-obama-staffer-as-new-cdc-director-as-the-agencys-repuation-remains-in\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T00:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T00:30:02","slug":"biden-taps-former-obama-staffer-as-new-cdc-director-as-the-agencys-repuation-remains-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/biden-taps-former-obama-staffer-as-new-cdc-director-as-the-agencys-repuation-remains-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden taps former Obama staffer as new CDC director as the agency’s repuation remains in"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Biden taps former Obama staffer as new CDC director – with agency’s reputation in tatters after Covid mishandlings<\/h2>\n

By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com<\/a> <\/p>\n

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President Joe Biden<\/a> is slated to appoint Dr Mandy Cohen, former North Carolina<\/a> Health Secretary, to head up the beleaguered Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Cohen will assume the position at the end of the month when outgoing CDC<\/a> chief Rochelle Walensky will step down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Obama-era health official is also a trained internal medicine physician who helped run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) which oversees government-issued healthcare benefits, and aided in the implementation of Obamacare.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most notably, Dr Cohen spent four years as North Carolina’s health secretary where she speerheaded the state’s pandemic response, a position that gave her the public health bona fides necessary to head up the sprawling federal health agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The announcement comes at a frought moment for the CDC and its reputation after a succession of fatal missteps<\/a> in addressing the pandemic, from manufacturing inaccurate Covid-19 tests to relaying contradictory messages about safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Dr Mandy Cohen is a Yale-trained physician with a masters in public health from Harvard University. President Biden has not made a formal announcement yet, which is expected to come later this month when current CDC director Rochelle Walensky steps down<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In response to news of the appointment, North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said<\/a>: ‘Mandy Cohen used a steady hand to help my administration lead North Carolina through the pandemic to be among the states with the lowest deaths and job losses per capita.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘She is a brilliant, talented and battle tested leader who would be a fantastic CDC Director.’<\/p>\n

Dr Cohen is a Yale University-educated doctor who also has a masters in public health from Harvard University.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has close ties to top Biden officials as well. She helped found a grassroots organization in 2008 called Doctors for Obama alongside current Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The group later broadened its message and rebranded itself as Doctors for America, with a focus on lobbying for and implementing the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has assumed several government positions under Democratic leadership\u00a0including at CMS, where she worked her way up to chief of staff and later chief operations officer.<\/p>\n

While serving as North Carolina’s health secretary, Dr Cohen headed up the state’s Covid response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though she was a strong proponent of masking and social distancing, was not keen on closing schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, she made the point that children are largely shielded from severe infection from Covid and would likely be safe in the classroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said in 2020: ‘Schools have not played a significant role in the spreading of COVID 19. ‘<\/p>\n

‘Children, particularly younger children, are less likely than adults to be infected with COVID-19. And for children who do become infected with COVID-19, they seem to be less likely to transmit it to others.’<\/p>\n

In 2022, she became the executive vice president of Aledade Inc, a network of independent primary healthcare practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The formal nomination has not been made yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And while her appointment does not have to be confirmed by Congress, Dr Cohen is bound to face scrutiny from frustrated lawmakers, mostly Republicans.<\/p>\n

GOP representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington and Morgan Griffith of Virginia said <\/a>on Wednesday: ‘The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has broken the American people\u2019s trust through its mismanagement of recent responses, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

‘Restoring public trust will require public discussion of the causes of CDC\u2019s missteps from across the public health sector to inform necessary solutions.’\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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