Ask Dr. Nancy

 by Lloyd Billingsley

President Trump’s choice to run the Centers for Disease Control is David Weldon, a physician, former congressman and critic of the CDC and its vaccine policies. Before he deals with those, Weldon might chase down a CDC alum who played a strategic role in the pandemic but has managed to escape accountability. That would be Dr. Nancy Messonnier, longtime director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) and in early 2020 the government’s first official voice on the pandemic.

In a series of telebriefings (links in this article) Messonnier told reporters a “novel virus” had arrived stateside from the “Wuhan market” and would spread across the country. The virus was “capable of spreading easily and sustainably from person to person” and “there’s essentially no immunity against this virus in the population because it’s a new virus.” The CDC was working closely with China but Dr. Messonnier said she was “not at liberty” to talk about individuals returning from Wuhan. She did not reveal which government official was laying down the rules.

In May of 2021 Dr. Messonnier suddenly retired and CDC director Rachel Walensky hailed her as a “true hero,” with no explanation of why she retired or what she did to earn hero status. These were hardly Messonnier’s only unknowns.

In 1995, Dr. Messonnier began her career as an officer of the CDC’s  Epidemic Intelligence Service, a legion of intrepid “disease detectives” tasked to prevent dangerous viruses from arriving on American soil. This medical CIA raises key questions for David Weldon. What does the EIS know about the origin of the “novel virus” from Wuhan? How was it vectored to the United States? What did EIS veteran Nancy Messonnier know, and when did she know it? Who was laying down the rules about what the CDC official could reveal? And so on.

As Weldon may know, Dr. Messonnier is the sister of Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who tapped Robert Mueller to investigate the bogus charge that Trump colluded with Putin to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. For coincidence theorists it’s all happenstance, but the people have cause to wonder.

Former attorney William Barr claims Rod Rosenstein made “important contributions to the administration and the country,” with no explanation of what they were.  Maybe Trump’s attorney general pick Pam Bondi could look into it while CDC director Weldon,  RFK Jr. at HHS, and NIH director Jay Bhattacharya deal with Messonnier, Fauci, Francis Collins et al. So much to uncover, and the people have a right to know.

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