A new #Forbes article from @drjudystone about the abysmal decision of the #HICPAC committee to remove protections for patients in hospitals, by reducing respiratory precautions.

Awful, terrifying decision, for business and liability reasons. It now goes to #MandyCohen, the head of the #CDC.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2023/11/24/cdc-told-to-weaken-infection-protections-as-mysterious-pneumonia-brews-overseas/?sh=43862e0248de

CDC Advised To Weaken Infection Protections As Mysterious Pneumonia Brews Overseas

A CDC advisory group has recommended relaxing infection control protections despite ongoing hospital-acquired Covid19 and risk of new emerging pathogens.

Forbes
A Storm Is Gathering Around A CDC Committee For Its Controversial Infection Control Guidance

A formal complaint has been filed with the Office of the Inspector General over the CDC committee revising hospital infection control protections. Here's what's at stake.

Forbes
KFF Health News 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://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/painful-covid-pandemic-lessons-mandy-cohen-north-carolina-cdc/
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#MandyCohen #CDC #NorthCarolina #pandemic #covid #KFF
The Painful Pandemic Lessons Mandy Cohen Carries to the CDC

Mandy Cohen, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, earned praise for her leadership and communication as the face of North Carolina’s response to covid-19. People in t…

KFF Health News

Reminded of the #KayfabePanto partisan in my mentions back in May, who was confident that Walensky would be replaced by someone better—as it was all down to mouthpiece, and not her boss, that CDC policy was eugenicist.

My refusal to play along with such willful self-chicanery—but instead dare to criticize the covid apologist in chief "so close to an election"—was offence so severe that said visitor to my mentions had no recourse but to block me.

#CDCDirector #MandyCohen #CDC #WorseThanRochelle

We know who the new CDC Director Mandy Cohen is:

🤦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 #CDC #WorseThanRochelle #Minimizer

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

Who Is Mandy Cohen? (07/27/23)

Listen to this episode from Death Panel on Spotify. Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss the career and opinions of Biden's new CDC Director Mandy Cohen and how her self-described mission to rebuild "trust" in the agency is only half the story. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Spotify

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

Former North Carolina health official Dr. Mandy Cohen is picked to be new CDC director

Dr. Mandy Cohen has been picked to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. the White House announced her appointment Friday. She succeeds Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who last month announced she was resigning effective June 30.

PBS NewsHour

@ablackcatstail
She is another “prescriptions caused the drug epidemic”.

#MandyCohen is not a fair-minded or rational. She’s as unfit as #DrTomFrieden to be head of the agency

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