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Trump’s Hantavirus Official Is A Penile Implant Specialist, COVID Conspiracy Theorist: Report
The U.S. health official who helped lead the nation’s response to the hantavirus outbreak this week is a penile implant specialist who has a history of far-right commentary and promoting COVID-19 conspiracies, CNN reported.
Former Alabama-based urologist Dr. Brian Christine, whom President Donald Trump appointed last fall as assistant health secretary, joined a panel of medical experts on Monday to discuss the risk of the hantavirus spreading within the U.S.
In this role, “he provides leadership on the nation’s public health priorities, including chronic disease prevention and efforts to strengthen the nation’s overall health,” according to the the Department of Health and Human Services website.
Christine has little public health experience and has claimed that the COVID pandemic turned into a government plot to control people, CNN found. He's also compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany, suggested that the COVID vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic and questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
He’s also a former Trump campaign donor whom the Alabama Republican Party described as “a longtime Conservative grassroots activist and dedicated supporter” of the party, as AL.com reported last year.