A whistleblower alleges Health and Human Services employees didn't have proper protection when working with coronavirus evacuees in California.
Federal workers did not have the necessary protective gear or training when they were sent to help quarantined Americans who were evacuated from China during the coronavirus outbreak, according to a government whistleblower complaint.
The team consisted of about 14 employees who had been deployed to help connect the evacuees with government assistance from mid-January until early February. “My concern from the moment I heard it is that individuals at HHS are not taking the complaints of HHS employees seriously,” Gomez said in an interview. “Their superiors are not supposed to brush them off. By retaliating against people if they do call out a problem, that only discourages other people from ever reporting violations.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar denied the accusation in a hearing Thursday when asked by Gomez if it was possible that protocols were broken given the urgency surrounding the virus, according to CBS News.
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