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HHS whistleblower claims US workers received coronavirus evacuees without proper precautions
(CNN)A whistleblower at the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking federal protection after complaining that more than a dozen workers who received the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, lacked proper training or protective gear for coronavirus infection control.
"We are hopeful that Congress and the OSC will investigate this case in a timely and comprehensive manner," Ari Wilkenfeld, a lawyer for the whistleblower, told CNN. "This matter concerns HHS's response to the coronavirus, and its failure to protect its employees and potentially the public. The retaliatory efforts to intimidate and silence our client must be opposed."
The Washington Post was first to report on the complaint and cited a redacted complaint obtained from lawyers alleges that HHS staff were "improperly deployed" and "were not properly trained or equipped to operate in a public health emergency situation." The whistleblower also alleges she was unfairly reassigned after raising concerns.
CNN has not independently reviewed the complaint.
"We are hopeful that Congress and the OSC will investigate this case in a timely and comprehensive manner," Ari Wilkenfeld, a lawyer for the whistleblower, told CNN. "This matter concerns HHS's response to the coronavirus, and its failure to protect its employees and potentially the public. The retaliatory efforts to intimidate and silence our client must be opposed."
The Washington Post was first to report on the complaint and cited a redacted complaint obtained from lawyers alleges that HHS staff were "improperly deployed" and "were not properly trained or equipped to operate in a public health emergency situation." The whistleblower also alleges she was unfairly reassigned after raising concerns.
CNN has not independently reviewed the complaint.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics/hhs-whistleblower-coronavirus/index.html
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Lets import it, infect the population, wait for a massive infection rate and go for some of those delicious powers we can use to finalize the coup. The chaos and pandemonium branch of shock and awe is on duty. What a wonderful, oligarch/dictator/theocracy it will be, (you have to have read Barr's speech to the religious broadcasters to get the plan).
This is really starting to piss me off, and I tend to be less reactive about things.
