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(117,468 posts) Wed Dec 1, 2021, 06:02 PM Dec 2021

Fired Kansas health secretary says he was 'Fauci'd' by COVID politics

The job of guiding Kansas through a generation-defining public health crisis for nearly two years fell to Dr. Lee Norman. Until recently, and suddenly, it didn’t.

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly recently fired him as secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment after months of reducing his role as the face of the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

She then quickly replaced him with Janet Stanek, a longtime hospital administrator who’s worked for the past 21 years at Stormont-Vail Health in Topeka.

Stanek will take the helm of the agency on Monday.

During the first several months of the outbreak, Norman, dressed in a white lab coat, was at Kelly’s side at widely broadcast briefings.

Read more: https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-30/fired-kansas-health-secretary-says-he-was-faucied-by-covid-politics

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Fired Kansas health secretary says he was 'Fauci'd' by COVID politics (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2021 OP

That headline gave me the wrong impression Grokenstein Dec 2021 #1

Glad to see Dr Norman go KS Toronado Dec 2021 #2

Grokenstein

(5,856 posts)

1. That headline gave me the wrong impression

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Dec 1, 2021, 06:17 PM

Dec 2021

Usually only rightwankers use Dr. Fauci's name like that. But Dr. Norman is solidly pro-vax and has no love for dim donnie's handling of the pandemic.

Q: Why did things get so political?

Norman: The shameful treatment in the Trump administration of public health leaders, I think, set the stage for having the same thing happen at the state level. (Anthony) Fauci was Fauci'd. And to be honest with you, I think I was Fauci'd.

KS Toronado

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2. Glad to see Dr Norman go

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Dec 2, 2021, 01:50 AM

Dec 2021

He could have done so much more to mitigate the virus spread and didn't. Don't know if he's a D or R,
but he led like an R. Instead of making decisions on a state level, he kicked it to county commissioners
to make the decisions he should have been making.

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