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Pandemic Panic

'Welcome to the S--t Show!'

Inside the Trump COVID pandemic response

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Emily Miller
Aug 13, 2021
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“Welcome to the s--t show!” a man yelled at me from across the private dining room of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). 

It was August 2020 and my second day on the job in the Trump administration. I was in charge of all the media for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the COVID pandemic.  I was walking out of the lunch room so…

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