President Joe Biden has tapped an aggressive promoter of the COVID-19 vaccines as the next director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (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 healthcare company Aledade. She previously worked in the federal government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services during the Obama administration….