Former NIH Director Calls Trump Administration's Pandemic Response 'Amateur Hour'
by Joe Palca
Jun 29, 2020
3 minutes
Dr. Elias Zerhouni knows the dangers of infectious disease outbreaks. He was director of the National Institutes of Health in 2005 when bird flu appeared poised to become more infectious to humans. Fortunately, that pandemic never materialized, but he says it served as a warning of what was to come.
Zerhouni has been a member of the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and head of global research and
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