FILE PHOTO: U.S. Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks to reporters about Trump administration efforts to combat the coronavirus outbreak outside the White House in Washington, U.S., February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
As is now widely known, two agencies Azar oversaw as HHS secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, wouldn’t come up with viable tests for five and half weeks, even as other countries and the World Health Organization had already prepared their own.
The first test created by the CDC, meant to be used by other labs, was plagued by a glitch that rendered it useless and wasn’t fixed for weeks. It wasn’t until March that tests by other labs went into production. The lack of tests “limited hospitals’ ability to monitor the health of patients and staff,” the HHS Inspector General said in a report this month. The equipment shortage “put staff and patients at risk.
HHS declined to make Azar available for an interview. Michael Caputo, the new chief HHS spokesman, declined to answer Reuters questions about Azar’s stewardship, saying in a statement: “We are communicating to the American public during a deadly pandemic.”Azar is a Republican lawyer who once clerked for the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and counts current Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a friend. Under George W.
The company sells Australian Labradoodles, a breed that is a cross between a Labrador Retriever and a Poodle. He sold it in April 2018, his financial disclosure form said. HHS emailed Reuters that the sales price was $225,000. Harrison decided, the sources say, to exclude FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn from the task force. “He said he didn’t need to be included,” said one official with knowledge of the matter.
Fauci, who has become a public face of the Trump Administration’s COVID-19 effort, said he wasn’t sure including the FDA was necessary at the start. Initially, the Chinese government was saying the virus spread through animals, not human to human, he said. “You would include the FDA when you want to expedite drugs or devices,” Fauci said.
That same day, during the first Coronavirus Task Force briefing, Azar told the public: “I want to stress: The risk of infection for Americans remains low.”
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realDonaldTrump do you call SecAzar's aid 'the dog breeder' too around the WH? 🐕🦺😆
He must be a really good dog breeder
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a dog breeder? HHS chief? a vet?
Trump = shit show
Brian Harrison, had joined the HHS after running a dog-breeding business for six years. We are sure Brian is going to do a heck of a job.
If Trump can assign Boy Jared to solve the thousands of years conflict in the Middle East, Azar appointing the dog groomer to steer the pandemic task force doesn’t seem that much of a stretch. As with Jared’s assignment, it is completely moronic, but so is Trump....& Azar too.
Is jared on it?
Azar? Another Jewish guy from Bronx or Brooklyn or whatever? Trump having trouble finding non-Jews for his jobs? No Anglo qualified?
JARED! For fuck sakes, they are killing us.
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