White house denies reports that he is looking for a replacement for Minister of health

MOSCOW, 26 APR – RIA Novosti. White house denies reports that examines the possible replacement of the Minister of health Alex Azar, reports Bloomberg, citing White house spokesman Judd Deere.

Earlier, us media reported that the White house is studying the list of candidates for possible replacement of hazard.

the Newspaper Politico reported earlier that the Minister considers the nomination of White house coordinator for combating coronavirus Deborah Burks, the head of the program of medical care for elderly Medicaid Sow Verma and first Deputy head of the Ministry of health Eric Hargan.

last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article about numerous alleged failures of hazard, which until March assured the President of Donald trump in that situation with coronavirus is under control. Other media, in contrast, argued that Azar had warned the President in January about the need to prepare for the outbreak, but he wouldn’t listen.

the White house has handed over the coordination of the fight against coronavirus from the Ministry of health the Ministry of emergency situations FEMA. In addition, the hazard was embroiled in a scandal with the dismissal of the expert on vaccines Rick bright, who promised to file a complaint against the leadership of the Ministry of health.

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