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To: Heywood40 who wrote (1223673)	4/22/2020 7:25:05 PM
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President Trump threatened to fire a top CDC official after her blunt warnings that COVID-19 would become a pandemic caused the stock market to plunge, The Wall Street Journal reported.Trump was on a state visit to India when Dr. Nancy Messonnier sounded the alarm about the severity of the coronavirus outbreak during a February 26 press conference.The Journal reported that Trump then called Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on his trip back and threatened to oust Messonnier from the CDC altogether. While Trump did not end up firing Messonnier, The New York Times reported that the entire episode effectively killed any efforts to persuade Trump to take decisive action to mitigate the virus.