By Sophie O’Hara | March 2, 2020
It’s been roughly three years since Obama left office and his minions are still wreaking havoc.
As it turns out, the fourteen American citizens who tested positive for coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan were brought back by none other than Obama-appointed doctor William Walters.
Who in the State Department actually made the decision? That’s a very good question.
According to a State Department briefing, the missions were carried out by the Directorate of Operational Medicine within the Bureau of Medical Services. You might think that sounds like it would be part of HHS or NIH, but the Bureau of Medical Services is actually an arm of the State Department.
The Directorate of Operational Medicine is a part of the Bureau assigned to deal with crisis response with a $250 million portfolio and a lot of employees that almost no one outside D.C. ever heard of. At least unless you remember an event at which Barack Obama honored Dr. William Walters, the head of the Directorate, for evacuating Ebola patients to the United States.
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Walters got his job in 2011. He’s a relic of the Obama era. That doesn’t mean that his politics are those of his former boss. But this is not about him. It’s about the reality that the White House doesn’t make many of the most vital decisions and doesn’t even know that they’re being made until it’s too late.
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Also, despite being warned by the CDC not to do so, Dr. Walters and his team still made the call to bring back the infected Americans from Japan for some mysterious reason.
Officials at the State Department decided to bring back the citizens, who had been quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, after consulting with a senior official at the Department of Health and Human Services. But officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention objected, concerned that the passengers, among hundreds of Americans being evacuated from the ship, could spread the virus. News organizations reported on the decision on Monday, and the passengers arrived in the United States that day. [NY Times]
Do you think it’s a coincidence that a doctor who was appointed during the Obama administration directed the State Department to bring back these infected citizens?
It’s hard to know for certain, but it’s odd that the Democrats were so quick to politicize the coronavirus and use it as another ploy to take down Trump.
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This piece originally appeared on WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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