Progressives slam Biden’s choice for Chief of Staff, Jeff Zients, whose fortune was built from investing in healthcare companies accused of fraud.
In early 2022, Boguslaw
the Biden administration to fire Zients over his failure to “provide the materials necessary to improve the U.S. response” to Covid-19 “or the guidance necessary to keep the pandemic under control.” Following news that he would be leaving the coronavirus response post, Public Citizen’s Robert Weissmanthat Zients “refused to pay appropriate attention to global solutions to the global pandemic, because of political concerns or otherwise.”
“And the Zients-led Covid response refused to challenge Big Pharma’s monopoly control, in the U.S. and globally, over technologies that relied crucially on public support,” Weissman continued. “As a result, the United States and other rich countries failed to expand vaccine supply sufficiently to meet global need. Without adequate supply, efforts to bolster low-income country distribution and delivery systems consequently have lagged and been similarly under-resourced.
During his time as pandemic response coordinator, Zients was far and away the wealthiest member of Biden’s cabinet, disclosing assets
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