The ousted spokesperson that Stephen Hahn removed? FDA says she’s still an appointee, but won’t say what she does

Jason Mast

Editor

In late August, after FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn and president Donald Trump vastly overstated the benefits of convalescent plasma at a press conference authorizing the therapy, Hahn removed the agency’s top spokesperson: a conservative communications professional and former journalist for the far-right network One America News with little experience in medicine and public health, who had been appointed to the job just weeks prior.

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