— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 19, 2020
Trump turned the microphone over to Dr. Hahn, who spent 5 minutes first praising Trump's leadership on this issue. Everyone knows you must praise Dear Leader if you want to keep your job and help the American people. First you help Dear Leader; first and foremost.
FDA's Dr Hahn talks about his experience as a cancer doc: "I had to talk to their diagnoses and treatments. What's important is to provide hope. I have great hope for how we are going to come out of this situation. What's important is not to provide false hope but provide hope."— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) March 19, 2020
Then Dr. Hahn insists "17,000 FDA employees" are working on a cure. Oddly, that's exactly the same number of Google engineers Trump said last week were working on a website to track tests for the virus. Which shoots his credibility to hell.
And tests are still not widely available. So who will get the "cures" first? NBA players? Congress? The White House?
I hope if a Democratic sweep happens that they take some serious steps to insulate the CDC and FDA from political pressures. The federal system having all those vital functions under the executive turns out to be not that much of a protection against disaster. I don't trust the CDC under Trump. I don't trust anyone in the executive branch.
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