Dr. Leana Wen Discusses the Tortuous and High Stakes Path that Dr.'s Fauci and Birx Must Navigate

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🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dr. Wen is an emergency room physician, professor at GW School of Public Health, and fmr. Public Health Commissioner for Baltimore under two mayors. The second, who was recently sentenced to 3 years in prison, is arguably crazy, giving her unique insight into the dilemma that Fauci and Birx face in dealing with an inarguably crazy president.

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0:08.7	Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondery's Podcast American Scandal.
0:12.7	Our newest series looks at the trial of the Chicago Seven, a case involving protests of
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0:31.0	Hey, everybody.
0:34.0	Got a great show today, you know, for a change.
0:38.0	And this time I mean it.
0:40.0	My guest is Dr. Lena Wynn, who is an emergency room physician and professor at George Washington
0:48.0	University's School of Public Health.
0:51.0	If you've been watching too much news as I have, then you've probably seen Dr. Wynn on
0:58.4	either CNN or MSNBC or both as an authoritative voice on the pandemic because Dr. Wynn has dedicated
1:08.9	her career to the public's health.
1:13.4	Now Dr. Wynn was the health commissioner for the city of Baltimore under two mayors,
1:19.0	the second of whom was kind of nuts and was just sentenced to three years in prison for
1:27.8	fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy involving.
1:33.3	And maybe you've heard about this.
1:34.8	It her self published book, Healthy Holly, the children's book.
1:43.8	Those women now former mayor, Catherine Pew, pocketed 800,000 bucks by forcing these
1:51.5	nonprofits, who she had a great deal of control over, to buy herself published children's
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