Former Obama HHS official criticizes Trump administration’s global Covid approach

Former Health and Human Services official Dr. Mario Ramirez told CNBC that he was “concerned” about equitable access to Covid-19 resources around the globe, and criticized the Trump administration for not participating in the multilateral COVAX facility.  

“One of the things that was unfortunate about the Trump administration’s approach to the pandemic, was that they chose not to participate in the COVAX facility,” said Ramirez, a former HHS pandemic and emerging threats coordinator in the Office of Global Affairs. “The COVAX facility was a way for emerging countries to jointly invest in vaccines and have access to all of these resources.”

According to a report from NBC News, while…