“She’s very well-liked. She’s a really good person. I think she’s going to do a really good job.”
That was Dr. Anthony Fauci on Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The National Institutes of Health recently named Marrazzo as the new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which Fauci headed from 1984 to 2023.
A Harvard biology grad, Marrazzo earned a medical degree at Jefferson Medical College and a master’s in public health from the University of Washington. Like Dr. Fauci, her bio shows no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry, but during the Covid pandemic, Dr. Marrazzo took a high-profile role.
In an April 17, 2020 session on C-SPAN, Dr. Marrazzo lamented the “wild fluctuations in the models” but said she was “not a modeler.” She recommended the CDC website for both the public and health professionals. In her opinion, the Washington Post was another “fantastic source.”
In a June 2020 video, Dr. Marrazzo donned a white lab coat and touted masks as a way to control the pandemic. If “physical distancing” was also applied, that would help “shut down community transmission.” In October, 2020, Dr. Marrazzo contended that “wearing a mask is very effective” and the single best thing people could do to prevent COVID-19.
On Halloween, kids could trick-or-treat if they wore masks and practiced social distancing. As Thanksgiving 2020 approached, Dr. Marrazzo said “the safest thing is not to gather in groups that you have not been cohorting with.” That applies in “gyms, bars and churches” and “singing is a great way to share this virus.” According to Marrazzo, a negative PCR test was “not a passport, not definitive.” People could be “asymptomatic” and still pass on COVID-19.
In 2021, Dr. Marrazzo said Covid vaccines, masking and social distancing “do actually work.” She lamented “lingering damage from the last lockdown,” but wearing masks was “the only way to keep kids in school and keep them safe and particularly, to keep schools open.”
Dr. Marrazzo has been quiet about the number of Covid patients she treated, but as with Dr. Fauci a ballpark figure is probably zero. Marrazzo’s specialty is sexually transmitted infections, especially as they affect women. Her research interests include pathogenesis and management of bacterial vaginosis, sexually transmitted diseases in HIV-infected persons, and management of antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea.
Dr. Marrazzo is co-author of “Sexually transmitted infections and female reproductive health.” The paper, published last year, contends that “women are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs) throughout life.”
Dr. Marrazzo also promotes “health equity,” which the CDC defines as “the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.” Read further and you find “social determinants of health inequalities,” “racism as a threat to public health,” and so on. Health equity is not medical science, but Dr. Marrazzo is a big fan.
In a 2021 interview with Todd Unger of the American Medical Association, Dr. Marrazzo said health equity “should be part of every physician’s training because most physicians in training are very privileged people.” Marrazzo’s strategies for improving health equity include “naming chief diversity officers, equity officers,” and other steps that “increase representation.”
As new studies contend, wearing masks can be harmful, particularly for children. Dr. Marrazzo has not exactly gone public with any second thoughts. The subject of vaccine injuries does not appear to interest the new NIAID boss, and her views on the origin of Covid are hard to find.
Dr. Fauci, who claims to represent science, contended that the virus arose naturally in the wild, a matter of speculation, not science. The FBI believes the likely source was a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Dr. Fauci funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct gain-of-function research, which makes viruses more lethal and transmissible.
Dr. Marrazzo’s views on the dangerous practice, once banned by the NIH, would be an interesting question for a confirmation hearing. Unfortunately, no such hearing will take place. Marrazzo is the pick of acting NIH boss Lawrence Tabak, and that settles it.
A dutiful bureaucrat and diversity drone will command a budget of $6.3 billion, with 21 laboratories NIAID funding activities in 133 countries. With all that money and influence, there appears to be no limit on the term of the NIAID director. Dr. Anthony Fauci, in government since 1968, ruled the roost for nearly 40 years, controlling public health policy and funding for medical research. That dangerous concentration of power calls for change.
The NIAID director should be subjected to confirmation hearings and a vote of the Senate. Congress should limit the NIAID director to a single four-year term and hold the director to account for all actions in office. All NIAID grants should be posted on the internet in real time and downloadable form. Absent these reforms, NIAID will be the same as under old boss Fauci, now the subject of an official criminal referral by Sen. Rand Paul.
White coat supremacy poses a clear and present danger to the people. White coat supremacy succession is now inherent in the system.