Fired Kansas health secretary says he was 'Fauci'd' by COVID politics

[TexasTowelie]

The job of guiding Kansas through a generation-defining public health crisis for nearly two years fell to Dr. Lee Norman. Until recently, and suddenly, it didn’t.

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly recently fired him as secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment after months of reducing his role as the face of the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

She then quickly replaced him with Janet Stanek, a longtime hospital administrator who’s worked for the past 21 years at Stormont-Vail Health in Topeka.

Stanek will take the helm of the agency on Monday.

During the first several months of the outbreak, Norman, dressed in a white lab coat, was at Kelly’s side at widely broadcast briefings.

Read more: https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-30/fired-kansas-health-secretary-says-he-was-faucied-by-covid-politics

[Grokenstein]

1. That headline gave me the wrong impression

Usually only rightwankers use Dr. Fauci's name like that. But Dr. Norman is solidly pro-vax and has no love for dim donnie's handling of the pandemic.

Q: Why did things get so political?

Norman: The shameful treatment in the Trump administration of public health leaders, I think, set the stage for having the same thing happen at the state level. (Anthony) Fauci was Fauci'd. And to be honest with you, I think I was Fauci'd.

[KS Toronado]

2. Glad to see Dr Norman go

He could have done so much more to mitigate the virus spread and didn't. Don't know if he's a D or R,
but he led like an R. Instead of making decisions on a state level, he kicked it to county commissioners
to make the decisions he should have been making.