“From my conversations with members of the task force, both inside and outside the administration,” Meekins told Sinclair in an exclusive interview, “The U.S. government, from Secretary Azar to the president relied on the Centers for Disease Control to produce a test; they failed....CDC said they would handle it....What we have found out is that these leaders at the CDC lied to both the HHS secretary and, by extension, the president. And as a result the nation got weeks behind.”
The “CDC” is not a person.
Question: Just who were "these leaders at the CDC [who] lied to both the HHS secretary and, by extension, the president?”
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Asked why more labs weren’t able to do the tests, Nancy Messonnier, who then was leading CDC’s response, said it was a quality issue. “We hold ourselves to an incredibly high standard of precision in terms of laboratory testing,” Messonnier said. “We wouldn’t want to inadvertently make a mistake in patient care.”
My parents raised two children. They encouraged us to take full advantage of the limitless promise of America, even when it took us far from their home. It is probably not a coincidence that we both have spent our entire careers as federal public servants. My sister, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, traveled here from Atlanta, where she is the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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