Trump CDC Pick Not Just about Vaccines or Elections

Dr. Erica Schwartz, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control, comes billed as a “home run pick” but may face pressure from the “vaccine-skeptical” Robert F. Kennedy’s HHS. Kennedy ally Aaron Siri recalls that Schwartz, “with threat and force, mandated almost every major vaccine on civilians and military members” and disciplined those who refused.

Others see the Schwartz pick as a political move in the run-up to the midterms. While confirmation awaits, the people might look back to the way the CDC handled COVID in the election year of 2020. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, maintained that the COVID virus emerged naturally in the wild. The NIAID director, who was not a virologist, branded those who thought otherwise as conspiracy theorists, fringe epidemiologists, and such.

Dr. Fauci funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in the People’s Republic of China to conduct dangerous gain-of-function research, which makes viruses more lethal and transmissible. CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield, a highly qualified virologist, found evidence of a laboratory origin and found himself the target of death threats.

Deadly threats against a public official warrant investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice. By all indications, nothing of the kind took place, and Redfield gave way to Dr. Rochelle Walensky. In May of 2021, CDC director Walensky hailed retiring Dr. Nancy Messonnier, longtime director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), as a “true hero,” but the people had cause to wonder.

Dr. Messonnier is a medical doctor, but like Dr. Fauci, she never treated a single COVID patient. Dr. Messonnier promoted the COVID vaccines, which failed to prevent infection or transmission, as the fully boosted Dr. Fauci and Joe Biden confirmed by testing positive. And as the people should know, Dr. Messonnier, not Dr. Fauci, was the first government mouthpiece on COVID.

In a CDC telebriefing on Jan. 17, 2020, Dr. Messonnier mentioned “the outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan City, China, which has been identified as being caused by a novel coronavirus.” In a Jan. 24 briefing, Dr. Messonnier told reporters, “CDC has a team that’s been in China for many years where we work closely with the Department of Health in China,” and traced the outbreak to the “Wuhan market.”

On Feb. 5, 2020, reporters asked about individuals returning from Wuhan. Dr. Messonnier said that was “not something that I’m at liberty to talk about today.” Dr. Messonnier did not disclose which official was laying down the rules, and did not reveal a key feature of her own government service.

Dr. Messonnier began her career in the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, a medical CIA tasked with preventing dangerous viruses from arriving on American soil. With the COVID virus, the intrepid EIS obviously failed, but no CDC official has explained the failure to the American people in any detail.

Trump’s CDC pick, Dr. Erica Schwartz, earned a medical degree from Brown University and a law degree from the University of Maryland. Like doctors Fauci and Messonnier, her bio shows no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry. Unlike CDC director Robert Redfield, Dr. Schwartz is not a virologist.

Schwartz served as deputy surgeon general, chief medical officer for the Coast Guard, and rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service, a militarized body. At Schwartz’s confirmation hearing, senators should bring in “true hero” Nancy Messonnier and pose some hard questions.

Were any EIS agents in the CDC team working in China for many years? Were any EIS agents disciplined, demoted, or dismissed over the failure to stop the arrival of the “novel coronavirus” in America? Did the COVID virus originate in the “Wuhan market” or in the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

In the opinion of doctors Schwartz and Messonnier, did Dr. Anthony Fauci “represent science”? Does the CDC find any evidence that COVID originated in a laboratory? Why did Dr. Robert Redfield get death threats? Who told Dr. Messonnier she was “not at liberty” to discuss travel from Wuhan? And so on. The people have a right to know.

At this writing, the confirmation hearing for Dr. Schwartz has yet to be scheduled.