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from the attached Wiki Bio...which has numerous references...
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COVID-19[edit]

See also: COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

On January 8, 2020, Redfield was advised by the head of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) was probably contagious among humans. Redfield did not warn the public at that time.[21] The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was discovered in the U.S. on January 20, 2020,[22] while Redfield was serving as director of the CDC. Redfield was a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force from its start on January 29, 2020.[23]

On February 13, 2020, Redfield said that the "virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think eventually the virus will find a foothold and we will get community-based transmission".[24] This contrasted with statements by President Trump, who, erroneously, told the public through most of February that the virus was under control.[25]

During February 2020, the CDC's early coronavirus test malfunctioned nationwide. Redfield reassured his fellow task force officials that the problem would be quickly solved, according to White House officials.[26] It took about three weeks to sort out the failed test kits, which may have been contaminated during their processing in a CDC lab. Widespread COVID-19 testing in the United States was effectively stalled until February 28, when the faulty test was revised, and the days afterward, when the Food and Drug Administration began loosening rules that had restricted other labs from developing tests.[27] Later investigations by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services found that the CDC had violated its own protocols in developing the faulty test.[26][28]

Redfield testified to Congress on March 2, 2020, about the outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S. Given the lack of testing on patients and healthcare workers requesting testing, Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked Redfield about who was responsible to ensure testing could be performed on individuals who needed to be tested. Redfield could not name a specific individual and looked to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of infectious disease at the NIH, who said, "The system is not geared to what we need right now... that is a failing."[29][30]
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Assessments[edit]

The CDC's actions during the pandemic have led to intense scrutiny of Redfield in congressional hearings and in media reports.[39] Laurie Garrett, a science journalist who is a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, called Redfield "ABOUT THE WORST PERSON YOU COULD THINK OF to be heading the CDC at this time" and said "he lets his prejudices interfere with the science, which you cannot afford during a pandemic".[40] William Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, said "Bob Redfield’s commitment to public health is completely strong," but said that Redfield has had trouble advocating effectively inside the White House.[41] Trump was said to like Redfield but to distrust the CDC.[41] (emphasis mine)
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Read the whole Bio...Redfield had no experience actually running a major health organization and therefore was essentially clueless on how to get things done...plus, as the bio shows...he failed conducting his own science in years prior to the CDC position...not one of the "Best and Brightest"...and certainly not on the level of Dr. Fauci who had been honored by multiple Presidents of BOTH PARTIES...

Just stop with the Trumpist "Anti-Fauci" nonsense. (of course that's never going to happen among the MAGA Zombies)


Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Redfield

Yet, the Great Fauchino always gets a pass for saying as late as March 6 that we should continue to live our lives as is.

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Umm, sure.

Headed by GWB and Bill Clinton.

I think this is a good idea.


Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bush-clinton-covid-commission-schools-shutdown-public-health-students-masks-state-data-7600ff7e?st=oglyxdk9sw620zf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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