Confirming Schwartz as CDC director is a rubber stamp on the same establishment public health apparatus that mandated vaccines for military personnel under threat of discipline. Schwartz openly brags about COVID-era drive-thru testing as an accomplishment for a virus with an extremely low fatality rate, and she refused to give a straight answer on whether she'd defy politically motivated directives. The CDC doesn't need another order-follower in a lab coat.

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