EXCLUSIVE: An episode where HHS officials lost email access during coronavirus planning has led to SEEMA VERMA being stripped of control of her agency’s emails and appealing to the White House to intervene. politico.com/news/2020/03/1…
Top officials were frantically trying to hammer out an emergency spending package to fight coronavirus when they realized: their email had crashed.
“It might sound funny if the stakes weren’t so high,” said one official.
“It might sound funny if the stakes weren’t so high,” said one official.
The email episode — which followed the failure of lab tests, disorganized evacuations and even a scientist getting locked out of CDC — is a reminder that much of the coronavirus response can be shaped by bureaucratic blunders, not just the White House.
