The president’s fixation on the malaria drug continues to raise alarms inside the health agencies working to fight the outbreak
most important takeaway should beof personal protective equipment, critical supplies and testing. That’s in addition to staffing problems, supply-chain snafus and other findings about risks to the nation’s coronavirus response — including that many hospitals lacked enough thermometers to monitor the temperatures of their own staff.
The survey, which was conducted between March 23 and March 27, drew on interviews with administrators from 323 hospitals and health systems. It was overseen by Christi Grimm, the principal deputy inspector general who’s been the acting inspector general since January 2020.wrongly suggesting that the report was Grimm’s “opinion,” and that she was an Obama appointee. Grimm has been in government since 1999.
from the media on Monday, suggesting that the office was "ethically obliged" to more quickly inform him of problems. But the inspector general shared the full report with the HHS secretary’s office on Friday, an official told POLITICO. Several current and former HHS officials also said they were uneasy with Giroir’s public rebuke of a colleague., the longtime inspector general who stepped down last year, praised Grimm as a “highly respected” career senior executive.
“She rightfully enjoys a sterling reputation, earned over many years, for sound independent judgment exercised in support of strengthening the capability of HHS to deliver the best possible service to the American people,” Levinson told PULSE. “Nothing in her longstanding career of public service would suggest otherwise.”
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