'More dire than we think': Health officials brace for Trump diatribes [View all]
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Source: Politico
Trump’s rebuke of his own Centers for Disease Control director and insistence on delivering a vaccine faster than the agency believes possible has alarmed officials throughout the government’s public health bureaucracy. And it’s swiftly erased any notion that with Caputo sidelined, the intense political pressure on the department’s Covid-19 efforts would evaporate as well.
Instead, health officials are now bracing for the worst, as the White House hits the home stretch of a re-election push that rests heavily on convincing the public that a viable vaccine is just around the corner.
“I really believe that things are going to be more dire than we think,” one HHS official said of the weeks to come. “It’s frightening.”
Trump’s sharp break on Wednesday with CDC chief Robert Redfield – who he insisted was “confused” and “incorrect” about the merits of mask wearing and a vaccine distribution timeline likely to stretch into next year – snapped a brief moment of calm for a health department that spent the last week embroiled in successive controversies over Caputo’s behavior.
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