The Tides May Be Turning: Some GOP Senators DO Think Real Bio-Science... Matters: CDC Nominee Scrubbed.

Well, after RFK, Jr. cancelled a scheduled flu-strain selection meeting, on next year's vaccine stock. . . it seems some GOP Senators are realizing that facing their voters in the wake of greatly elevated flu (and other viral) death rates in a year or two. . . will be difficult, to say the least.

Thus, merely a handful of hours before the Tangerine 2.0 nominee to lead the CDC was to go before the Senate. . . his nomination is pulled, and Trump starts over, from scratch. These clowns -- are completely cartoonish. But to be certain, this is better news than having him in the seat. Every day without leadership though -- real leadership -- is another day lost to being the driving force, in preventing communicable diseases here in the US, and around the globe. Here's STAT+ on it:

. . .The Trump administration withdrew the nomination of Dave Weldon as its pick to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to two sources familiar with the decision, hours before he was set to appear before the Senate’s health committee.

The sources said the administration had concerns about Weldon’s long track record of criticizing vaccines. Weldon would have been the first CDC director to go through the Senate confirmation process, after a law passed in 2022. But there were concerns within the White House that he did not have enough votes from Senate Republicans to win confirmation. . . .

And so it is -- as I often say -- that sanity makes its comeback. . . with the smallest of steps, at first. This is one of those times. And now the crewed ISS SpaceX launch won't go until Friday night -- weather at the cape. Onward.

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