Christine Grady, the top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and wife of former NIH official Anthony Fauci, was one of the health bureaucrats who received a layoff notification on Tuesday, according to news reports.
Grady was given boots as part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) post-pandemic restructuring. New York Times and Statistics News. HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his top aides said the layoffs aim to integrate administrative functions and overhaul current failures in American health.
Some NIH leaders did that The option was given He moved to one of the Indian Health Services field offices in Alaska, Minnesota, Montana, and elsewhere far from Washington, D.C. However, it is not clear whether Grady was among the officials given the option to get a remote post hundreds of miles from the couple’s Tony Beltway neighborhood. The couple had a net worth of $11.5 million by Fauci’s retirement in 2022. Federal Disclosurea $7.6 million jump from before the Covid-19 pandemic, Open the book.
Even a respected NIH official as well as Grady acknowledged that his marriage to Fauci had an impact on his ability to tackle ethical questions that were at risk that he would not reflect his former White House medical advisor.
Dr. Anthony Fauco, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testified at the selected subcommittee of the Coronavirus Pandemic Hearing House on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, on June 3, 2024 (photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
A NIH official spoke about the terms of anonymity told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Grady is “a good person with a big conflict of interest.”
“One of the issues with the Wuhan Lab Leak cover-up, the whole of Fiasco was that they didn’t hear anyone giving ethical advice,” the official said. “If they had someone at the table who knew this, they would have said: ‘Hey, do you want to play it this way, or do you want to be more transparent?” Someone might have raised the question. ” (Related: “The Pandemic is over”: All NIH Covid Grants have been eliminated under new directives)
“That’s something Christine Grady might or should have had,” the official continued. “She was Forsey’s wife, so she couldn’t do that.”
“Maybe they had a private discussion about what was going on,” the official said. “That’s why she was placed in a conflicting role.”
Other NIH staff members from Fauci’s inner circle have also been let go.
Clifford Lane, who worked at Fauko’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has also let go, according to the New York Times.
Emily Elbelding, director of NIAID Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, has also been let go. Government executives. Erbelding was involved in communications with Peter Daszak, according to an email obtained in 2020 about Fauci’s relationship with Niaid and High-Risk Virology in China. We have the right to know Freedom of Information Law and a Congressional investigation.
Emailing comments to Grady, Lane, and Erbelding did not receive an immediate response. The call to the NIH Ethics Bureau was answered, but it ended abruptly when the receptionist found out that the reporter was making the call.
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