Posted on 02/27/2020 3:18:52 PM PST by bitt
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint.
The workers did not show symptoms of infection and were not tested for the virus, according to lawyers for the whistleblower, a senior HHS official based in Washington who oversees workers at the Administration for Children and Families, a unit within HHS.
The whistleblower is seeking federal protection, alleging she was unfairly and improperly reassigned after raising concerns about the safety of these workers to HHS officials, including those within the office of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. She was told Feb. 19 that if she does not accept the new position in 15 days, which is March 5, she would be terminated.
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Why post a link to a pay site? Especially for the WAPO?
The government has programs and protections in place for whistleblowers with a legit issue. I don’t believe those programs and protections mean much.
I guess the LAST 'anonymous whistleblower' lesson was not lost on this one.
Really? Is this the hill the rat party chooses to die on? Really? Certifiable. ....
...other federal employees??
And why is that a problem?
I imagine that MANY 'sent to help' were not directly involved WITH the evacuees!!
Everyone on the plane was exposed too. Including the Pilots and Crew. And I wonder what the did about the contaminated plane?
Not the least bit surprised of the incident, the players and the threat. There was a video from the Lackland quarantine of their outside buffet with ungloved hands.
See my tagline.
Because it worked with Katrina. Because the stupid GOP didn’t fight back.
Rest assured had we Jeb Jeb, Mittens or possibly even Cruz in office these stories would’ve stuck.
Have you heard a peep at all from any of them or the turtle or the GOP house leadership?
I hear MINORITY leader Chuck Schumer and Pelops practically every night on the news.
I hear nothing from the GOP leadership.
Push the story and narrative - until it doesn’t.
“...The whistleblower ... was told Feb. 19 that if she does not accept the new position in 15 days, which is March 5, she would be terminated....”
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The “whistleblower” must be in the Senior Executive Service (SES). She apparently doesn’t want to accept that the possibility of involuntary reassignments go with that territory. So she’s trying to abuse the whistleblower protections to head that off. Pathetic.
A second person familiar with the situation said the workers were not tested for coronavirus because none of them met the criteria, which was restricted at that time to people with symptoms and either a recent trip to China or close contact with a person confirmed to be infected with covid19. If the workers had exhibited symptoms, appropriate protocol would have been followed.
The DEEP STATE I’d very, very, deep!!! She should be terminated right now for spreading this panic about this virus!!!
Thanks.
So Fake news, of course.
Thanks.
So Fake news, of course.
That was my first thought. Doesn’t want reassignment so makes claims as a whistleblower. The swamp is deep.
I hear MINORITY leader Chuck Schumer and Pelops practically every night on the news.
I hear nothing from the GOP leadership.
Push the story and narrative - until it doesn’t.
....Austin. ...nuff said.
....the mentally deranged city of TX.
So are they TRYING to get it going here?
If so, why?
Not fake news........irrelevant news
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