Biden Picks COVID-19 Vaccine Proponent as Next CDC Director
President Joe Biden has tapped an aggressive promoter of the COVID-19 vaccines as the next director of the CDC.
Biden, on June 16, announced he’d chosen Dr. Mandy Cohen, the former top health official in North Carolina, to lead the CDC after the current director steps down this month.
Cohen “is one of the nation’s top physicians and health leaders” with “a proven track record protecting Americans’ health and safety,” Biden said in a statement.
Cohen, who departed the North Carolina role in 2022, currently works as executive vice president at the health care company Aledade. She previously worked in the federal government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services during the Obama administration….