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She Came from UnitedHealth and Promised Not to Make Trouble
Read more . . . →The CDC has a new director. The last one got fired for disagreeing with RFK Jr. about vaccines — the real kind, the kind that wiped out polio, not the Facebook comment section kind. The replacement is Dr. Erica Schwartz, previously of UnitedHealth Group, where she pulled $850,000 a year. At her confirmation hearing she said vaccines are safe and effective, then dodged every question about whether she’d push back if Kennedy told her otherwise. Said she was “unaware” of some of his policy changes. The whole audition was don’t know anything, don’t push back. The agency she’s inheriting has...
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