'She couldn't even pronounce convalescent plasma': FDA ousts spokesperson after 2 weeks

[RandySF]

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Friday ousted his top spokesperson after only two weeks on the job, a dramatic shake-up of the agency's communications strategy after FDA and its leader were engulfed by controversy related to the coronavirus response.

"Effective immediately, Emily Miller will no longer serve the FDA as the assistant commissioner for media affairs and will no longer be the official spokesperson for the Agency," Hahn wrote in an email to senior leaders that was shared with POLITICO. "I will appoint someone to an acting role in that position in the interim."

Hahn officially removed Miller, a fellow Trump appointee, from her post on Friday morning, ending a tenure that was marked by infighting and a damaging controversy this week over the FDA's emergency authorization of convalescent plasma as a Covid-19 treatment.

Colleagues said that Miller, with no prior medical or science experience, was a bad fit inside an agency rushing to fight a pandemic. "There was an inability to do anything inside the agency," said one health official. "She couldn't even pronounce convalescent plasma."



https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/28/fda-top-spokesperson-leaves-404422

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Eh, Thought we were talking about Melanoma. nt

[Celerity]

2. And here I thought this alone made her as qualified as Fauci

Silly me

[Tanuki]

3. Her length of tenure was roughly 1.3 Scaramuccis.

[soothsayer]

4. Drumpf can't say it either

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. She worked as an on-air reporter for 6 years

It's not just her lack of health knowledge that shows her incompetence, it's her lack of media capability. She's just an ideologue.