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NIH principal deputy director, who led agency during COVID, resigns abruptly

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NIH principal deputy director, who led agency during COVID, resigns abruptly

The No. 2 in command at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, who served as acting director of the agency during the COVID-19 pandemic, has abruptly resigned.
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Tabak's resignation comes amid a shakeup within the Health and Human Services Department, the NIH's parent agency, that occurred once President Donald Trump took office in January. Under Trump, the agency has faced cuts to programs and reports have indicated the administration has plans to fire a trove of HHS employees. Typically, Tabak would have been promoted to acting director while Trump's nominee awaited confirmation. However, the position was instead assigned to Dr. Matthew Memoli, a former top researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a known critic of COVID vaccine mandates.

Tabak was part of a group of agency leaders, including Fauci and former NIH Director Francis Collins, who congressional investigators accused of trying to manipulate the narrative around the origins of the COVID-19 virus. Through GOP investigations, it was determined Tabak was part of a controversial phone call with Fauci, Collins and several prominent scientists that critics have argued was a catalyst for the publication of a scientific paper that was released positing that it was not plausible the virus originated in a lab.

He was also front-and-center when it came to GOP probes into whether risky gain-of-function research was occurring at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, and faced criticism for slow-rolling the release of information requested by Republican investigators for these concerns.
 
The Republican War on Competence and Merit continues.
 
It doesn’t matter too much since DOGE will be shutting down most of the NIH and returning those monies back to states and individuals in the form of lower taxes—which I support.

When Elon says that he is going to take an axe to Donald’s federal apparatus, I’m all for it. Chop away!
 
Do you think the arbitrary withdrawal of NIH funding and the cancelation of all work may have played in?
 
This guy didn't get Biden's immunity so he has to devote his time and energy to his legal defense.
 
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