Jim O’Neel has been selected to serve as the acting director of the Disease Control and Prevention Center, a source familiar with the case on Thursday a day after the confirmed-confused leader of the CDC was taken out.
A former tech investor, O’Nell Currently works As Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is working under Junior.
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He will capture the CDC after 24 hours to the Public Health Agency in Atlanta. Susan Monarez was Ended by White House After a few weeks of the job on Wednesday, inspired his lawyers to argue that only President Trump could systematicly set them on fire. He also alleged that Monarez was “targeted” to oppose “unscientific, careless instructions”.
Several other top CDC leaders also resigned, in some cases criticizing the ideas of Trump administration’s vaccines or agency cuts.
O’Neel has served as Deputy HHS Secretary since June working In the agency during the administration of former President George W. Bush. His HHS biography credits him for leading reforms in Food and Drug Administration for “Food Safety Regulation” in the late 2000s.
O’Neel worked in the earlier class Peter ThealA silicon valley venture capitalist and GOP megadoner. According to his HHS Bio, he served as the CEO of the non-profit Theal Foundation, and he has the thiel fellowship, a scholarship program that provides $ 200,000 to college-age entrepreneurs, who agree to stay out of school according to their HHS bio. O’Neel also worked at Thiel’s hedge funds, Clarium Capital.
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